Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
The Pains of Growing was released three and a half years after Alessia Cara's first single began a liftoff that led to platinum certifications, multiple Juno awards, and a Grammy. As accolades piled up, Cara experienced a complete between-albums profile maximization cycle, highlighted by featured appearances on songs by Zedd and Logic and a well-synchronized Disney connection with the Lin-Manuel Miranda-written theme for Moana. Cara's second album catches her at a point where she's simultaneously an emergent singer/songwriter and a bankable collaborative pop star. The Pains of Growing embraces the duality for better and worse. Having co-written everything on first album Know-It-All, Cara wrote an even higher percentage of the material here, including a few songs on her own. She also produces one of the finer ones, the primarily acoustic "I Don't Want To," a bittersweet, conflicted ballad. Pop & Oak co-produced over half of the debut and contribute to several of this album's most appealing songs, from the faintly Jade-echoing "Growing Pains" -- in the relatable anthem vein of "Scars to Your Beautiful" -- to "Trust My Lonely," where Cara sails off with some sweetly miniaturized digi-dub. Apart from a romantically content soul throwback with No I.D., through which Cara displays the increased richness in her voice, the album's remainder employs assorted hit-angling producers connected by pop success with young women. The Pains of Growing is consequently more fragmented and less consistent than Know-It-All, but Cara makes the best of it, generally writing in a slightly wiser and sharper manner from the same introverted homebody perspective. Even the "isolated life on the road" number "Wherever I Live," the album's lone post-fame moment, sounds like it was written by the person who made "Four Pink Walls."
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From $10.83/month
Warren Felder, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew "Papa Justifi" Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Oak Felder, Programmer, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Pop & Oak, Producer - Keith "Daquan" Sorrells, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jon Levine, Producer, Keyboards, Drum Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Green, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Inaam Haq, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Sosin, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Bianca McC, Violin, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
George Seara, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Producer, Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Oak Felder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Pop & Oak, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Keith "Daquan" Sorrells, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Warren Okay Felder, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Oak Felder, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Pop & Oak, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, Additional Vocals, AssociatedPerformer - Keith "Daquan" Sorrells, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Warren Okay Felder, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Ricky Reed, Producer - Ethan Shumaker, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Oak Felder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Zaire Koalo, Producer, Co-Producer, Programmer, Drum Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Pop & Oak, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - "Downtown" Trevor Brown, Producer, Guitar, Co-Producer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - William Zaire Simmons, ComposerLyricist - Keith "Daquan" Sorrells, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Trevor David Brown, ComposerLyricist - Warren Okay Felder, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jimmy Douglass, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Producer, Recording Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Ernest Wilson, ComposerLyricist - Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Steve Wyreman, Producer, Guitar, Piano, Hammond B3, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist, Bass (Vocal) - No ID, Producer - JIM CARUANA, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Casey Cuayo, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ryan Reault, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Nate Mercereau, Guitar, French Horn, Trumpet, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Feigenbaum, String Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Anthony, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Koszler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - KALEB NATHAN ROLLINS, ComposerLyricist - Marc Anthony Soto, ComposerLyricist - ClickNPress, Producer - Brandyn Porter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Patrick Warren, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Zach Rae, Keyboards, Strings, AssociatedPerformer - Rick Nowels, Producer, Piano, Strings, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Kieron Menzies, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dean Reid, Producer, Drums, Drum Programmer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Trevor Yasuda, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian Griffin, Drums, AssociatedPerformer - Chris Rockwell, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Dylan Brady, Percussion, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer, Bass (Vocal)
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Matt Anthony, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Stephen Koszler, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - KALEB NATHAN ROLLINS, ComposerLyricist - Marc Anthony Soto, ComposerLyricist - ClickNPress, Producer - Brandyn Porter, Acoustic Guitar, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Chris Gehringer, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Eric Frederic, ComposerLyricist - Ricky Reed, Producer - Ethan Shumaker, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Nate Mercereau, Producer, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Andrew Wansel, ComposerLyricist - Oak Felder, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist - Zaire Koalo, Producer, Co-Producer, Programmer, Drum Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - Pop & Oak, Producer, Keyboards, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - "Downtown" Trevor Brown, Producer, Guitar, Co-Producer, Programmer, AssociatedPerformer - William Zaire Simmons, ComposerLyricist - Keith "Daquan" Sorrells, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Trevor David Brown, ComposerLyricist - Warren Okay Felder, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jimmy Douglass, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Cara, Producer, Engineer, MainArtist, StudioPersonnel - Alessia Caracciolo, ComposerLyricist
℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The Pains of Growing was released three and a half years after Alessia Cara's first single began a liftoff that led to platinum certifications, multiple Juno awards, and a Grammy. As accolades piled up, Cara experienced a complete between-albums profile maximization cycle, highlighted by featured appearances on songs by Zedd and Logic and a well-synchronized Disney connection with the Lin-Manuel Miranda-written theme for Moana. Cara's second album catches her at a point where she's simultaneously an emergent singer/songwriter and a bankable collaborative pop star. The Pains of Growing embraces the duality for better and worse. Having co-written everything on first album Know-It-All, Cara wrote an even higher percentage of the material here, including a few songs on her own. She also produces one of the finer ones, the primarily acoustic "I Don't Want To," a bittersweet, conflicted ballad. Pop & Oak co-produced over half of the debut and contribute to several of this album's most appealing songs, from the faintly Jade-echoing "Growing Pains" -- in the relatable anthem vein of "Scars to Your Beautiful" -- to "Trust My Lonely," where Cara sails off with some sweetly miniaturized digi-dub. Apart from a romantically content soul throwback with No I.D., through which Cara displays the increased richness in her voice, the album's remainder employs assorted hit-angling producers connected by pop success with young women. The Pains of Growing is consequently more fragmented and less consistent than Know-It-All, but Cara makes the best of it, generally writing in a slightly wiser and sharper manner from the same introverted homebody perspective. Even the "isolated life on the road" number "Wherever I Live," the album's lone post-fame moment, sounds like it was written by the person who made "Four Pink Walls."
© Andy Kellman /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 15 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:35
- Main artists: Alessia Cara
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc. ℗ 2018 Def Jam Recordings, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
Improve album information
Why buy on Qobuz?
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalog with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.