Is there a thread on the band Growing?

Go buy that instead, and wait for the new record to get into the Black Dicey stuff.

Ahh too late! I was feeling impulsive... anyway I could probably use some unmastered rhythms, for my own self esteem not least. They're a duo now right? Or have they always been maybe

always have been

Soul of the Rainbow kinda bored me but I like their new stuff (Lateral EP and All the Way)

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Got new album in the mail

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I like it a lot. Got a free download coupon with the vinyl it has an extra track. Pity the album is only at 160 bitrate.

That is fucking wack.

I wish I'd listened to Whiney, Color Wheel really isn't that impressive. Maybe I should give it another try but on first it felt pretty bland and unfocused. Will check out the new one anyway.

I like all the records I've heard (about half of them) and am going to check out their live show at ATP New York next weekend. Anyone here seen them before? How are they in the live setting?

kinda lame opening for boredoms a few years back

Honestly, though... who wouldn't pale opening for Boredoms these days?

their new album is like post-beaches and canyons black dice and vision creation newsun. right down to the cover. it's nice. i guess.

exceppppptttttt with no real drums and no real sense of like direction or anything.

those are two of my very favourite noise/psych records so it might be worth checking. I got interested in Growing from a couple of tracks on a Kranky comp, but I found "Color Wheel" really disappointing as a lot of it was quite ugly and intrusive sounding.

I really like the new album.

I like it too, but calling it Black Dice meets VCN is an oversell

nu black dice meets Rebore 0 at best

I like it too, but calling it Black Dice meets VCN is an oversell

it wasn't really meant to be, like, an endorsement. more like "these dudes were probably listening to VCN and black dice a lot when they recorded it because it's a passable imitation."

I wouldn't compare it to vision creation newsun just because its so non-rhythmic even if the overall mix and individual sounds approach parts of it

alright, i just got live (at free103.9 and north six) and these are the hippie drones i was looking for.

The new Kevin Douch solo album (Total Life - Ken Bradshaw) is available from the Social Registry website. Took me while to track it down.

I'm still getting to grips with it but there's definitely a distinct progression akin to pre/post Color Wheel Growing between this one and his first solo effort. Which I guess isn't entirely unexpected.

Forgot to post this...

Live at ATP New York.

They were so so good.

*Kevin Doria

I'm pretty much in agreement with the "'Beaches and Canyons' but without the rhythms or any sense of direction" descriptions, and yet I think I like "All the Way" more than "Beaches and Canyons". B&C without the rhythms would still be pretty great, but I think the shorter songs on "All the Way" have a lot to do with it ... Black Dice in 2003-4 would lose the plot and find it again about two or three times over the course of a fifteen minute song, but Growing go six minutes and out and I think I prefer the simplicity of that style.

haha! This is great!

Told you!

It does not remind me of Black Dice, it reminds me of that Hisham album, soft circle or whatever

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one ting to rule dem, all one ting to find dem

they're playing tonight in providence, I guess they're a 3 piece now?

"pavement rich in gold" is one of the epics of the decade, up there with ghost's "grisaille," skm's "duk koo kim," and sm's "1% of 1"

I'm hearing this band for the first time, with no sense of what I should expect, and it is totally knocking me out. (Specifically The Sky's Run Into the Sea.)

So this band got back together and made a new record this year - two songs, 40 minutes. It's a lot closer in style to their earlier, dronier records.

Based on a couple of listens - I like it, though not as much as the first few albums. In any case I think this band is one of the most underrated acts of the 00s.