2. Woods, Songs of Shame (‘To Clean’) Somewhere...

Woods – To Clean

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2. Woods, Songs of Shame (‘To Clean’)

Somewhere between the Velvet Underground and Dinosaur Jr. in the time-space continuum of rock music, comes a freak-folk band and an album with dulcet pop tunes to rival (even outdo) Fleet Foxes and noise tracks to bring it all down to earthy, dark humanity. Lo-fi ain’t the half of it, because Woods stretches the definition in both directions - the obvious fidelity of ‘To Clean’ and ‘Rain On’, or the powerful cover of ‘Military Madness’, versus the slow psych of ‘September With Pete’. Songs of Shame is an album of sadness and beauty and little bits of guitar fuzz (which turn into large chunks live), and it’s - nearly - the best, the most refreshing and most excitingly novel thing I’ve heard all year.

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