The Grownup Noise Release “Change Your Mind”

BOSTON, MA — January 9, 2025 — As they prepare to release their long-awaited album No Straight Line in the Universe on February 6, 2026, The Grownup Noise share “Change Your Mind,” the final single ahead of the record’s arrival.

Following the reflective warmth of “We Become Roses” and the adolescent reckoning of “See You in the Hall,” “Change Your Mind” brings the album’s emotional arc into sharp focus — confronting the tension between who we’ve become and the moments when growth requires real risk.

Where earlier singles looked backward, “Change Your Mind” lives squarely in the present. ‘“Change Your Mind” is a playful song about the power of persuasion. And using people, experience, and depth to be open enough to change your mind on something.  It’s a meditation on vulnerability, stubbornness, and the quiet courage it takes to admit we might be wrong.

“At this point in life, changing your mind can feel like failure instead of progress,” says frontman Paul Hansen. “But sometimes it’s the only way forward. This song is about that moment where you’re standing on the edge of something — a relationship, a truth, a version of yourself — and realizing that staying the same might cost you more than changing ever could.”

Musically, “Change Your Mind” unfolds with a playful intensity, gradually building from restraint to release. The band’s signature textures are paired with a fun melody that mirrors the song’s tongue-in-cheek look at the power of persuasion.  It’s a fitting final preview of an album rooted in emotional honesty and lived experience.

The release also highlights the renewed chemistry of the band’s original lineup — Hansen (guitar/vocals), Katie Franich (cello/vocals), Adam Sankowski (bass/vocals), and Kyle Crane (drums) — reunited for the first time since 2015’s Stewing. Recorded after years spent navigating careers, families, loss, and change, No Straight Line in the Universe documents a band reconnecting not just with one another, but with the people they’ve become.

In celebration of the album’s release, The Grownup Noise will perform a hometown release show on February 7, 2026 at Deep Cuts, bringing the full emotional arc of the record to the stage one night after its official release. The show marks a rare opportunity to experience the reunited lineup in an intimate setting, performing new material alongside songs from across the band’s catalog.

Formed in Boston in 2005, The Grownup Noise have long been known for their cinematic indie-rock sound and literate, emotionally sharp songwriting. Their music has appeared on NPR, MTV, Netflix, and in independent films, and their touring history includes stages shared with Counting Crows, Aimee Mann, Tommy Stinson (The Replacements), and Patton Oswalt. With No Straight Line in the Universe, the band expands on what the Boston Globe once described as their “delicate, witty, and wistful” sound — now sharpened by perspective, humility, and hard-won clarity.

“If the album has a thesis,” Hansen says, “it’s that growth is rarely clean or linear. ‘Change Your Mind’ felt like the right final chapter to share before the record comes out — because it’s the moment where everything you’ve been circling finally asks something of you.”

NO STRAIGHT LINE IN THE UNIVERSE (track listing)

1. We Became Roses

2. See You in the Hall

3. Anxiety

4. Get Lost

5. Change Your Mind

6. Where's K

7. Day Moon

8. Plaything

9. Back to Me

10. Rabbit Hole

11. Us Fools