''Desperate Journalist'' is the debut album by

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Desperate Journalist Desperate Journalist are an English, London-based post-punk band, formed in 2012. They released their debut album, the self-titled '' Desperate Journalist'', in 2014, on Fierce Panda Records. A second album, '' Grow Up'', was released in March ...

. It was released on November 3, 2014, on

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. It received strongly positive reviews from The Quietus and

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Track listing

Personnel

Desperate Journalist *Jo Bevan – voice *Robert Hardy – guitar *Simon Drowner – bass *Caroline Helbert – drums Production *Austen and Jonny – engineering *Götz-Michael Rieth – mixing

B-sides

from the "''Cristina''" EP *"Mistakes" *"Kitten" *"Wait" from "''Happening''" *"Vengeance" from "''Hesitate''" *"Happening (Medium Wave remix)"

References

2014 albums Desperate Journalist albums Fierce Panda Records albums {{2010s-punk-album-stub