(Garage Rock, Lo-Fi, Psychedelic/Noise Rock) [LP][24/96] Sex Church – Growing Over - 2011, FLAC (tracks)

"Vancouver rockers Sex Church blast into their first truely long player (last year's sexcellent "Six Songs By Sex Church" clocking in at thirty minutes falling somewhere in between an EP and an LP) on Load Records. Hot off of the recent bump in notoriety that comes from releasing a HoZac Hookup Klub 7", one of the best in this recent batch by our reckoning, the group do not disappoint with this foray into the limier light. The tunes here are bottom-heavy, scuzzed-out, feedback-layered garage with runout flourishes of repetitive drone in places and phased spaced-out spaces driving it all home on spacecraft to your inner-mindspace. All of it comes from the end of some block in Vancouver where the bad kids sling-shotted pennies into the streetlights so they could hide from the cops. Kind of a bummer trip, but a succinct enough snapshot of a specific time and place that the word "beautiful" still applies. We're throwing around comparisons like "darker bummer Wipers (think "Youth of America" era)" and "more riffin' Kitchen's Floor" and "a Puffy Areolas running at half-speed," and "an apathetic Mantles", which amounts to "thing this is, thing this isn't," meaning what we've really got on our hands here is "Kind of like a Sexier Churchier Sex Church." Given how much we've enjoyed everything these guys have put out so far, that's a very good thing. We will no doubt be spinning this one through the end of 2011 and far into the future! Recommended."

--Permanent Records