★★★★★
The NYC duo of Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria, a.k.a. Growing, awe and shock with their brand new disc All the Way. Green Flag introduces us right off the bat to the band's new sound territory, which is inhabited by greater rhythms and pulses, testing those familiar with their earlier plunging into layers of swirling beat-less beauty...
- www.hour.ca
2010-11-02
★★★★★
For the superstitious among us, it is the worst kind of luck to listen to a band you plan to see within 24 hours of their show. Van accidents, band dissolutions, and broken friendships, among other horrors, have supposedly resulted from the transgression. Yet a few weeks ago, on the verge of heading out to watch Growing live, I found myself hitting play on His Return, only hours before they were scheduled to perform...
- pitchfork.com
2010-09-11
★★★★★
Takes Growing's expansive palette, blurring and disguising instrumental points of origin to a point where sheer sound defines itself with authority. Now a duo with Kevin Doria on bass and guitar and Joe Denardo on guitar, Growing have pushed into the manipulation of feedback, hiss and static; wringing out waves of delay from their amps while retaining an earthbound mastery of crushing riffage...
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Growing are a trio based in Olympia, WA. The Sky's Run Into The Sea is their debut album and is aptly named; like the horizon line it delineates a place where elemental forces collide and overlap. Using guitars, bass and electronics Growing create rows of ascending and descending intervals of noise and silence which move rhythmically and reveal latent harmonies and dynamics. Growing recorded and mixed the album in their hometown.
- www.forcedexposure.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Take away their tremolo pedals, and Growing might be a drone band; still, the genre that pops up for the Brooklyn-based two-piece in iTunes just seems off. After all, it's not as if a film would turn into a photograph if you took away the individual frames...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
It's a familiar trajectory. Dudes in rock and hardcore bands get tired of the formal constraints of said idioms so they pull out some effects pedals and see what happens. What starts with a desire to retreat from the transparency of unadorned instrumental performance or the perceived narrow geometry of rock often ends in a haze of delay and fuzz (or, more perilously perhaps, phasers and flangers)...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
Much like the Stars of the Lid, Total, and others before them, the duo of Kevin Doria (bass and guitar) and Joe Denardo (guitar) creates heavy sounds using feedback, hiss and static. Growing are known for the extreme volume of their live shows, but unfortunately that sort of volume and density is difficult to achieve on album, and it shows here. Without the assistance of sheer sonic mass, what remains on their sophomore album is just a bit too close to New Age for comfort...
- dustedmagazine.com
2010-08-23
★★★★★
There's a thin line between wallpapery ambience and the sort of meditative drone music that demands unflinching attention. Happily, although Olympia duo Growing use some pretty ambient signifiers?a lot of birdsong and babbling brooks, chiefly?their second album falls emphatically into the latter cultural camp. The most obvious reference point for these beautifully phased guitar and bass hums is minimalist innovator Lamonte Young...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2010-06-19
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