WOODS- At Echo Lake CD / LP / CASSETTE out now

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"With a title like At Echo Lake the fifth album from New York?s Woods
intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical
manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the
specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007?s At Rear House
and 2010?s At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more
properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam
ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of
group playing. Over the past few years Woods have established
themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd
proposition even in the outr? company of vocalist/guitarist/label
owner Jeremy Earl?s Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time,
committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation,
to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of
tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Recent live
shows have seen them best confuse the two, playing beautifully-
constructed songs torn apart by fuzztone jams and odd electronics. At
Echo Lake feels like a diamond-sharp distillation of the turbulent
power of their live shows, in much the same way that The Grateful Dead?
s ?Dark Star? single amplified and engulfed the planetary aspect of
their improvised takes. Some of the material here ? the opening ?Blood
Dries Darker?, the euphoric ?Mornin? Time? ? is so lush that lesser
brains would?ve succumbed to the appeal of strings and horns but At
Echo Lake is more Fifth Dimension than Notorious Byrd Brothers,
nowhere more so than on ?From The Horn?, a track that is as beautiful
in its assault on form as ?Eight Miles High? or Swell Maps? ?Midget
Submarines?. But despite the instrumental innovation that the album
heralds ? G. Lucas Cranes? psychedelic tapework on ?Suffering Season?,
guest musician Matthew Valentine?s harmonica and modified banjo/sitar
on ?Time Fading Lines? ? At Echo Lake is all about the vocals. Woods?
secret weapon is the quality of Earl?s voice, osmosing the naive style
of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a
discipline and a tradition. Here he is singing at the peak of his
powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly
arrangements of backing vocals. At Echo Lake feels like the
transmission point for teenage garage from the past to the future.
Deformed by contemporary experiments, bolstered by magical traditions
from the past, it?s the sound of now, right here, At Echo Lake."

-David Keenan/Glasgow/March 2010




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