'Cumulusless' adds synth washes into the mix and 'Blue Angels' turns a warmly overdriven guitar into a harmonium accompanying a church organ. The echo and chorus of 'Peace Offering' has you immediately in mind of Robin Guthrie's solo work, and it is on 'Green Pasture' that they come the closest to producing a straight up instrumental, electric folk song.   Full text...

Color Wheel continues in the general direction that Doria and Denardo traveled on their past two albums, but they also divert into welcome tangents.  Full text...

This is hypnotic music for stoners who like their ambient music in the form of monolithic slabs of overdriven sludgy feedback, rather than intangibly ethereal.   Full text...

Growing's music is as unpredictable and as all enveloping as the weather. Listening at high volume can be literally stunning, as a picture on the bands website bears out.  Full text...

Color Wheel doesn't stray far from Growing's signature sound: Idyllic drones struggle and periodically fail to contain outsized slabs of Tortoise-caliber distorted guitar that violently rupture the placid surfaces.  Full text...

If you enjoy past work from the group, you're not going to go wrong here.  Full text...

Color Wheel is the duo's third full-length release, and it's a prime slab of beautiful noise.  Full text...

The tracks may jar a bit more than they ever have before, but there's a calming ease with which Doria and Denardo pursue their music, allowing them a transcendence other so-called drone bands can only approximate. More now than ever before, Growing's music begs for total immersion.  Full text...