GROWING — Vision Swim
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Neues Album der Gitarrren-Droner aus Olympia, Washington mit ihrem Mix aus Post-Rock und Vibrato-Drone, sie gehen hier neue Wege und integrieren stärker experimentelle Sounds & elektronische Geräusche..
"GROWING returns with their most focused and intense work to date. The twin guitar attack is complimented by a wall of amps and deafening volume--and just the right amount of extreme quiet and delicacy. Growing have ventured into uncharted territory, where sheets of noise meld with metallic noodling and blissfully numbing drones and exploratory electronic manipulations. LP packaged with die-cut sleeves with full-color inner sleeves." [label press release]
"...From the opening track, a simple repeated riff, a super processed effects soaked guitar part, repeated over and over, a strange subtle progression, backed up by a super simple bass drum pulse, and streaked with bits of backwards guitars and whirling shimmer, it's obvious that Growing are no longer content to just rock out and drift off, they are looking for weird sounds and figuring out how to make those weird sounds sound beautiful. The second track, 15 minutes plus, is thick with grinding low end guitars, chopped into staccato pulses, laced with almost techno sounding Nintendo melodies, and loads of hiss and ambient flutter. That's only the first few minutes, there are long stretches of fuzzy reverbed guitar, but even those parts are dotted with bursts of glitched electronic bbzzzzzt. Near the end, thick swaths of buzzing guitar pile up into gently swaying Teenage Filmstars-esque walls of sound. The next track, another long one, eschews all the effects, at least the obvious ones, and instead lets an ocean of guitars swirl and shimmer, tangle and untangle, flip backwards and then forwards, a million melodies pulling apart and coming back together in different shapes, pretty, but definitely a lot to take in sonically.
The last two tracks are brief, "Emseepee" is a churning pulsing damaged krautrock drone, with lots of electronic buzz, gnarled bits of synth and lots of damaged glitch, all over a relentless, almost new wave sounding Goblin bassline. Finally, the record winds down with "Lightfoot" a Tim Hecker-ish soundscape, of gently pulsing fuzz, indistinct melodies, fragments of songs allowed to drift on a constantly shifting sonic sea, before suddenly pulling apart into a dizzying squall of sound shards, hiccuping and stuttering and throbbing and eventually crumbling into what sounds like a skipping broken cd player. Woah.
Not nearly as soothing as past efforts, but that no longer
seems to be what they're going for. The sounds are alien and
difficult, the arrangements confusing and convoluted, but Growing
manage to reign these problematic sounds into shapes that are both
fascinating and strangely soothing." [Aquarius Records]
www.troublemanunlimited.com
"GROWING returns with their most focused and intense work to date. The twin guitar attack is complimented by a wall of amps and deafening volume--and just the right amount of extreme quiet and delicacy. Growing have ventured into uncharted territory, where sheets of noise meld with metallic noodling and blissfully numbing drones and exploratory electronic manipulations. LP packaged with die-cut sleeves with full-color inner sleeves." [label press release]
"...From the opening track, a simple repeated riff, a super processed effects soaked guitar part, repeated over and over, a strange subtle progression, backed up by a super simple bass drum pulse, and streaked with bits of backwards guitars and whirling shimmer, it's obvious that Growing are no longer content to just rock out and drift off, they are looking for weird sounds and figuring out how to make those weird sounds sound beautiful. The second track, 15 minutes plus, is thick with grinding low end guitars, chopped into staccato pulses, laced with almost techno sounding Nintendo melodies, and loads of hiss and ambient flutter. That's only the first few minutes, there are long stretches of fuzzy reverbed guitar, but even those parts are dotted with bursts of glitched electronic bbzzzzzt. Near the end, thick swaths of buzzing guitar pile up into gently swaying Teenage Filmstars-esque walls of sound. The next track, another long one, eschews all the effects, at least the obvious ones, and instead lets an ocean of guitars swirl and shimmer, tangle and untangle, flip backwards and then forwards, a million melodies pulling apart and coming back together in different shapes, pretty, but definitely a lot to take in sonically.
The last two tracks are brief, "Emseepee" is a churning pulsing damaged krautrock drone, with lots of electronic buzz, gnarled bits of synth and lots of damaged glitch, all over a relentless, almost new wave sounding Goblin bassline. Finally, the record winds down with "Lightfoot" a Tim Hecker-ish soundscape, of gently pulsing fuzz, indistinct melodies, fragments of songs allowed to drift on a constantly shifting sonic sea, before suddenly pulling apart into a dizzying squall of sound shards, hiccuping and stuttering and throbbing and eventually crumbling into what sounds like a skipping broken cd player. Woah.
Not nearly as soothing as past efforts, but that no longer
seems to be what they're going for. The sounds are alien and
difficult, the arrangements confusing and convoluted, but Growing
manage to reign these problematic sounds into shapes that are both
fascinating and strangely soothing." [Aquarius Records]
www.troublemanunlimited.com