Grown Up, Fucked Up

The Reatards released two more EPs in 1998 and 1999, Get Out of Our Way and Your So Lewd , before distributing the band’s second studio album Grown Up, Fucked Up on Empty Records, in November 1999. The album was as primitive, albeit more structurally sound, as Teenage Hate but came at a time that the group was competing for time with Reatard’s other side projects, most notably the Lost Sounds . Deming notes Grown Up, Fucked Up as a transitional album where “one can hear faint clues of the somewhat more sophisticated music he would later make with Lost Sounds and as a solo artist”. In the same year, before committing fully to other bands, the Reatards toured the West coast and Europe.