The Best Is Ready to Begin, New Growing Album in September!

It seems like just yesterday Growing was a young band in short-pants and with a runny nose, scampering off to its first day of music school. Now, it's all grown up, sports a pencil-thin mustache, and spends every Friday night exhaling cigarettes and drinking lemon gin outside the arcade. My, how they grow!

Growing are indeed big boys now, and their refined brand of distorto-drone (© 2008, TMT) is hotter than scrap-metal recycling. The duo of Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria will unleash their long-awaited The Social Registry full-length album, All the Way, September 9, their first release since the exquisite 12-inch single/mini-album/EP Lateral (TMT Review) was issued way back in February.

All the Way tracklisting:

1. Green Flag
2. Wrong Ride
3. Rave Pie Only
4. Innit
5. Lens Around
6. Reconstruction

If we were betting folk, we would put a sawbuck down on Growing -- so obviously named after the episode of "Growing Pains" where one of the boys (Mike, Ben... Alphonse?) learns a tough life lesson after he steals a skag mag and some Skoal from a convenience store, heads upstairs to the master bedroom closet with the intention of flogging his wazoo, and depositing a hunk of chaw into his father's Italian loafers but is caught by Dad mid-wrist pump (that's the "growing" part) who wraps up the episode nicely with a heart-to-heart at the kitchen table over mugs of Ovaltine and a friendly match of Hungry, Hungry Hippos -- announcing a tour sometime soon. We are not betting folk. We are cheapskates. But Growing must play soon. That’s just the way it is done. Until then, feast your eyes on this!
07.17.08 - New York, NY - New Museum in New York (with I.U.D.)

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