06.14.08 - Album Recommendations: Growing

There’s been tons of emails rolling into CCROW Networks (on good days, we’re talking three hundred emails – literally kilobytes of data) requesting music recommendations – reflecting society’s thirst for something new. In fact, many bear demanding tones laced with harsh language – hearkening my generation’s “give us something for nothing” mentality.

I’m not saying Mariah Carey’s latest record “E=MC^2” isn’t a fine piece of work, but it’s an obvious recommendation and everyone already owns it anyway. To pacify those looking for something more, I bring two album suggestions from the group “Growing” (more recommendations to follow).

Lateral [The Social Registry, 2008]:

Vision Swim [Troubleman Unlimited, 2007]:

Not necessarily for the faint of heart [insert offensive Tim Russert joke here]. From Dusted Magazine:

“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.”