WOODS
Apr 16, 2020
3 minutes
By Peter Watts
Strange To Explain WOODSIST
8/10
is Woods’ first album for three years, but the New York group led by Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere haven’t exactly been slacking. The past few years have brought a couple of personal milestones – Earl’s first child was born and Taveniere moved to California – as well as two excellent non-Woods albums. was a split LP of gorgeous jams recorded with Dungen, while David Berman’s glorious swansong, , featured, an album about sleep, dream spaces and new places tied around a series of time-distorting, synth-laden songs that at times seem more reminiscent of ’70s Philly soul than the band’s usual lo-fi guitar-centric indie psych-pop.
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