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West (Deluxe Version)

Wooden Shjips

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Supreme psych-drone rockers Wooden Shjips must have figured out that if they traveled any more inward they just might turn themselves inside out. On their third studio album, the Shjips’ trance-inducing drones feel more focused and goal-oriented, cruising on elasticized, fuzz-encrusted guitar and keyboard notes with unwavering determination to reach a destination. The Shjips will likely never land their songs on vampiric TV shows or nighttime soaps, and it’s unlikely they’ll be on “modern rock” radio anytime soon. But we can certainly envision tracks like the swirling and murky “Black Smoke Rise“ and the propulsive “Lazy Bones” on the soundtrack of an edgy Tarantino flick featuring murderous bikers on acid, and we can see the shockingly “peppy” melody of “Looking Out” getting a remix treatment by Trent Reznor for a Jeep commercial. There are other places to go with Wooden Shjips’ music besides one’s own navel, and West is a fine launching pad.

Customer Reviews

True Fantastic Album

Found this band by sheer luck. Was sitting next to a really interesting dude on a flight to SFO the other day got chatting about life and such and he, turned up to be Dusty, the bass player. At the time I had not heard of them, so iTunes'd the album and here I am writing a review.
Nice to meet you Dusty, safe travels and good gigging in the future.

I will be checking them out at the EU festivals next year for sure.

Peace

Love it

I shazam'd a song on The Walking Dead and it was Lazy Bones, had to have it! I'm diggin the whole album so far! I'm loving Shazam right now for helping me find this album!

Glad I own it.

This album is solid and worth the money. It makes me think, if California had a sound, this would be it.

Biography

Formed: 2003 in San Francisco, CA

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

San Francisco's enigmatically named Wooden Shjips play a minimal, droning brand of garage-styled psychedelia with a noticeable '60s Krautrock influence. The band's vocals slip beneath waves of throbbing minimal rhythms, while fuzztone guitar and shrieking organs jump to the foreground. When bandleader Ripley Johnson assembled the group in 2003, he wasn't interested in playing gigs or becoming famous; rather, his original intention was to find a group of non-musicians for the purposes of creating...
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