Color: Opaque White. Indie Exclusive. UPC: 850064541786 Anchored in the charmingly warm vocal presence that McNown partly honed by busking at the beach in Southern California just a few years ago, Night Diving (The Cost of Growing Up) takes the latter half of its title from a gorgeously textured track that perfectly exemplifies his newly refined sound. With its rootsy and ethereal instrumentation--luminous steel guitar, lush mandolin, soulful organ--"The Cost of Growing Up" arrives as a clear-eyed but melancholy meditation on the inevitability of pain. "To me, the cost of growing up is an acceptance that difficult things are going to happen--from minor inconveniences to devastating loss, it's all a part of life," says McNown. "But there's also beauty in that because, without those hard moments, you wouldn't be able to truly love."