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| Pitchfork |
 For a pair of bros most frequently labeled as sound sculptors or colossal drone makers, Growing's Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria have rarely shied from beats or rhythms. Granted, the rhythmic play in their work might not have always been the focus, but, live and on record, the duo's use of stereo effects has long given their tracks a tidal, back-and-forth motion. Since leaving Kranky in 2004, Growing have avoided flatlining hums altogether. On 2006's Color Wheel, when they were still collecting Eno and Earth comparisons, the effects through which Denardo and Doria routed their guitar and bass-- and the way those pieces fit, phasing and lacing up and down, in and out-- gave tracks like "Fancy Period" and "Green Pastures" tiny but distinct rhythms.They kept at it: On both the 2008 EP Lateral and the 2008 LP All the Way, Growing emphasized that metric aspect, making it obvious by adding actual beats ("Rave Pie Only") or, more frequently, by stacking gorgeous tones that created incidental rhythm. It comes as little surprise, then, that Growing have now made the next beat-driven advance, adding a third member, vocalist and sampler controller Sadie Laska, and shifting the balance of their focus from tones graced by rhythms to rhythms graced by tones. But there's always a downbeat: It doesn't work, at least not yet. Growing have been at their best when they've been most immersive, when they let the listener slip into their atmosphere of ideas. And that-- not this newly pronounced dependence on rhythms and vocals-- is why PUMPS! is so underwhelming. Growing's approach is uncharacteristically undeveloped here, as the trio never seems to know for what exactly what it's aiming. On "Massive Dropout", they stunt an interesting, textural beat with unnecessary electronic interference. After all, it's easier to hide ancillary sounds beneath a roar that saturates the tape than beneath a drum machine that leapfrogs from one meter to the next....full text |
| Prefixmag |
| Seventh full-length from the label-hopping electronic/noise trio (their first for Vice) active since 1999, who added third member Sadie Laska (I.U.D.) prior to this release. Pumps was recorded at the Ocropolis, Oneida's Brooklyn studio complex, over just a few days but was subject to an intensive mixing process, which saw many songs transformed from their studio iteration. The record strays further from the group's drone and ambient roots into occassionaly dancey abstract noise as evidenced on "Hormone."...full text |
| Popmatters |
| Growing Pumps (Vice) Releasing: 6 April Brooklyn’s Growing has a new home in the hipster lifestyle label Vice and their new album Pumps emerges this spring. SONG LIST 01 Short Circuit 02 Hormone 03 Massive Dropout 04 Camera 84 05 Challenger 06 Highlight 07 Drone Burger 08 Mind Eraser...full text |
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