WAVY TREES “GROWING UP”

THE MOMENT LIFE STOPS WAITING FOR YOU

The chaos turning into responsibility. The nights that end earlier than they should. The promises made at 2AM crashing against the reality of the next morning.

“Growing Up”, the new single by Wavy Trees (out October 24th, 2025), isn’t just a release, it’s a portrait of what it feels like to enter adulthood while still trying to hold onto the version of yourself that refuses to change.

Their sound remains unmistakably theirs: fast, fun, nostalgic, rebellious, and unexpectedly sweet. Since forming in 2019, and after opening for Bikini Trill, the band has built a universe shaped by surf-rock energy, raw emotion, and the messy honesty of real life. Love, loss, late-night partying, burnout, and that universal feeling of “I’m not ready for this, but here we go.”

Alongside the single, the band is also releasing a music video directed by mrseanbarrett, expanding their identity between California sunsets, human vulnerability, and that strange moment when growing up suddenly becomes real.

INTERVIEW WITH ZACK (WAVY TREES)

Crash, burn, repeat, it’s pretty much the process of growing up.

1) “Growing Up” talks about the shift from chaos to responsibility. When did you realize you were actually becoming an adult?

«I think I still haven’t realized it, to be honest haha. I still feel like I’m 23.»

Zack says it laughing, but it’s one of those universal truths: nobody really knows when they become an adult. It just happens. And you’re still there, convinced you’re the previous version of yourself.

2) The track opens with an iPhone recording from a Sublime concert. Why did you keep that raw moment, and what does it represent sonically and emotionally?

«I always thought it was rad that Sublime had people talking at the beginning of their song ‘Badfish’. So I recorded the crowd on my iPhone during the Sublime show as an ode to Sublime!»

That raw fragment of reality opens the track like an emotional doorway: it’s real life, unfiltered. It’s the sound of the world before you’re forced to become an “adult.”

3) Wavy Trees mix surf rock, nostalgia, rebellion, and sweetness. How did this blend become your identity, and how does “Growing Up” evolve it?

«I grew up on bands like Slightly Stoopid, Pepper, Dirty Heads, Sublime. I’ve always had reggae and surf rock in my heart, but I never had the chance to unleash it. Now that we’ve come this far, I just said screw it, let’s do every genre we want, who cares.»

This is what Wavy Trees are: pure freedom. Genre-fluid, emotion-first, zero labels. “Growing Up” doesn’t try to bring order to the chaos, it embraces it. It reminds us that growth isn’t linear. It’s a series of crash & burn moments until, one day, without knowing how, you wake up and realize you survived anyway.

Wavy Trees release - Growing Up

WHY “GROWING UP” HITS SO HARD

Because we all go through it: the moment life asks for more than we feel ready to give. Responsibility becomes unavoidable, even when you’re convinced you haven’t changed at all.

And yet, somewhere in the middle of the chaos, there’s still room to sing loudly, mess up, learn slowly, try again.

Wavy Trees don’t just talk about growing up, they capture its contradictions.The sweetness, the rebellion, the nostalgia, the noise.Everything that makes becoming an adult both terrifying and unexpectedly beautiful.

With “Growing Up,” they give that feeling a soundtrack: raw, warm, messy, human.