Wooden Shjips - Back To Land (Clear With Copper Hi-Melt Vinyl)

Wooden Shjips - Back To Land (Clear With Copper Hi-Melt Vinyl)Wooden Shjips rise to prominence from the psychedelic underground to the rock and roll overground has been a steady sojourn. With each consecutive release, the band has found new ways of transforming heady psychedelic rock into minimalist masterpieces, bridging the gap between the woozy freeness of Les Rallizes Denudesand Crazy Horse and the tightly wound simplicity of Suicide and the Velvet Underground. Back To Land, the quartets follow up to West,

The title sounds pastoral and quaint

" "I’m Not the Loving Kind")

mixer and producer

processing piano sounds through analogue filters

It was like

- El Rego et Ses Commandos

The Liverpool band led by the creative force of Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle have arrived with ‘Tell Me Your Mind and I'll Tell You Mine’

Moving fluidly from muscular riffing to scorched-earth dirge to sweeping ballads

while still maintaining a sense of wonder about the world and a dash of charming naivete

Following the smeared introductory tones of “Zeta

the Besnard Lakes finally dispensed with the two/three-year album cycle

here they’ve found their footing on their first LP