Growing, Vision Swim (Troubleman Unlimited)

Lying in darkness, listening to the sound of blood rushing round my head, pulsing, throbbing, quickening.  Tendrils of light snaking through sticky eyelids, kaleidoscopic patterns and colours dancing, blurry outlines forming in druggy fog.  A strange sensation grabbing at me, one I vaguely remember…happiness…that’ll be it.  I get to thinking about that Guns N Roses song, thinking that I’m pretty sure Axl has been in a coma himself as there is NO WAY he could have written about what it is really like, with all the cheap investigations and crass communications that you tend to experience at the less dancy end of the Glasgow scale if he hadn’t actually been there and done it.  

With their new album, noise duo Growing have created an album to soundtrack anyone’s ascent from a state close to PVS.  They lapse into a comfortable reverb-drone state (I’m hearing Spacemen 3) and drift in and out of it for the course of the record, creating impressionistic whorls of fuzzy dreams, and reaching rapture by the end.  Vision Swim is a more disciplined effort than previous releases, but provides more than sufficient stimuli to keep the synapses ablaze.

I love this record.  Listen to the first track, “Limbo” here. Vision Swim is available from TmU here.