Lateral

Growing continue their quest for the perfect soundwave on their Social Registry debut, LATERAL, a four-song drone exercise that entrances like a slowly turned kaleidoscope. "Swell," the album's opener, seems like an early Brian Eno ambient track before morphing into what sounds like a traffic jam in a galactic cityscape. Joe Denardo and Kevin Doria are patient geniuses who pull cyclical patterns of sound out of seeming nothingness. A must for fans of drone and ambient music.