Results for "Wooden Shjips"

Wooden Shjips

Back To Land

By Wooden Shjips

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2013
Track listing: Back To Land; Ruins; Ghouls; These Shadows; In The Roses; Other Stars; Servants; Everybody Knows.

Wooden Shjips: Back To Land

by Glenn Astarita
November 19, 2013

This West Coast nouveau psychedelic space-rock based unit has refined its oeuvre a bit. The moveable wall of sound remains intact, however a tad more concentration in melodic content advances the group to another level that would conceivably increase its scope of awareness within the college and satellite radio circuits. Nonetheless, the band has amassed a ...

West

By Wooden Shjips

Label: Thrill Jockey
Released: 2011
Track listing: Black Smoke Rise; Crossing; Lazy Bones; Home; Flight; Looking Out; Rising.

Wooden Shjips: West

by Glenn Astarita
September 29, 2011

Derived from America's western mythology and romanticism, the San Francisco-based Wooden Shjips incorporates vintage psychedelics, propelled by punchy back-beats amid Sonic Youth-style crunch chords and doses of German space-rock. However, the musicians do seed familiar turf into an identifiable group-focused line of operations. Perhaps a throwback to the '70s, due to Farfisa organ sounds and dreamy ...