{"title":"Woods","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoods is an influential artist known for their unique blend of folk and psychedelic rock. With a career spanning over a decade, they have released numerous critically acclaimed albums and have gained a dedicated fan base worldwide. Their music is characterized by introspective lyrics, intricate melodies, and experimental soundscapes. Woods' captivating live performances showcase their exceptional musicianship and raw energy. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to their music, exploring Woods' discography is sure to be a rewarding journey into the depths of indie rock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom their early days as a DIY band in Brooklyn to their current status as one of the most respected acts in the alternative music scene, Woods has consistently pushed boundaries and defied genre conventions. Their ability to seamlessly blend elements from various musical styles sets them apart from other artists in the industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith each album release, Woods continues to evolve creatively while staying true to their signature sound. Their latest offering [album name] showcases their growth as songwriters and highlights their knack for crafting memorable hooks and thought-provoking lyrics.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"perennial-2","title":"Perennial","description":"\u003cp\u003eWoods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on \u003ci\u003ePerennia\u003c\/i\u003el.  Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Operating the Woodsist label since 2006 and curating the beloved homespun Woodsist Festival for the musical universe they’ve built, Perennial is the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerennial\u003c\/i\u003e grew from a bed of guitar\/keyboard\/drum loops by Woods head-in-chief Jeremy Earl, a form of winter night meditation that evolved into an unexplored mode of collaborative songwriting. With Earl’s starting points, he and bandmates Jarvis Taveniere and John Andrews convened, first at Earl’s house in New York, then at Panoramic House studio in Stinson Beach, California, site of sessions for 2020’s Strange To Explain. With a view of the sparkling Pacific and tape rolling, they began to build, jamming over the loops, switching instruments, and developing a few dozen building blocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s resulting 11 songs, 4 of them instrumental, are in the classic Woods mode - shimmering, familiar, fractionally unsettling - but with the half-invisible infinity boxes of Earl’s loops burbling beneath each like a mysterious underground source. From source to seed to bloom, each loop unfolds into something unpredictable, from the jeweled pop of the aching “Little Black Flowers” to the ecstatic starlit freak-beat of “Another Side.” They are blossomings both far-out and comforting, like the Mellotronic cloud-hopping of “Between the Past,” or sometimes just plain comforting, like the widescreen snowglobe fantasia of the instrumental “White Winter Melody,” touched by Connor Gallaher’s pedal steel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoods have long used the studio as a place of songwriting, naming 2007’s \u003ci\u003eAt Rear House\u003c\/i\u003e after their shared dwelling and recording space. But Perennial also carries with it an even longer view of Woods. Emerging from the process alongside the music was Earl’s reflection that “perennial plants and flowers are nature’s loops,” an idea rolling under the album’s lyrics like the loops themselves. It certainly applies to the band, too, who have quietly tended to a long, committed project of being a band in the weird-ass 21st century, both individually and communally.  Though separated by coasts, the communal sprit carries through Earl, Taveniere, and Andrews’ collaboration, a living embodiment of the freedoms rediscovered every time a new collectively created piece of music emerges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor nearly two decades, Woods have survived subgenres, anchored in the fertile soil below hashtags like lo-fi and freak-folk and psychedelic and indie, and built a shared history that’s something to marvel at. As the flagship band for Woodsist, they’ve accumulated a striking extended family of collaborators (and Woods alum) that have made the label one of the most dependable imprints in the kaleidoscopic low-key underground. It’s a glow that’s transferred whole to the blissed-out Woodsist Fests held in Accord, New York in recent years, which have folded in a wide range of diverse sounds, from the the jazz cosmoverse of the Sun Ra Arkestra and adventurous legends Yo La Tengo, to a hard-to-even-count family tree of contemporaries, like Kevin Morby (who served a few tours of duty as Woods bassist) and Kurt Vile (who released his 2009 debut on Woodsist), a living community in sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerennial \u003c\/i\u003ecarries all of this, shaped by decades, but made in the moment, and here right now. The smell of the flowers doesn’t remain, but sometimes the flowers do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJesse Jarnow\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodsist","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50422073229643,"sku":"2029071","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50422070772043,"sku":"2029069","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Woods_Perennial_cmyk_12x12_2ff78ac6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726762289"},{"product_id":"reflections-vol-1-bumble-bee-crown-king","title":"Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith no touring this year, and possibly next, Woods decided to take a deep dive into their archives and put together the first volume of this much discussed archival series, \u003ci\u003eReflections\u003c\/i\u003e. Featuring rare and unreleased recordings from 2009 – 2013, Including a ghost town desert jam off the side of the highway, the first live performance in Big Sur, the first recorded version of Bend Beyond and some shelved diamonds in the rough that were finished up during quarantine. 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Maybe those epiphanies were buried under cassette manipulation or drum-and-drone freakouts, or maybe they were cloaked in Jeremy Earl's lilting falsetto, but over the course of an impressive eight albums, Woods refined and drilled down their sound into \u003ci\u003eCity Sun Eater in the River of Light\u003c\/i\u003e, their ninth LP and second recorded in a proper studio. It's a dense record of rippling guitar, lush horns, and seductive, bustling anxiety about the state of the world. It's still the Woods you recognize, only now they're dabbling in zonked out Ethiopian jazz, pulling influence from the low key simmer of Brown Rice, and tapping into the weird dichotomy of making a home in a claustrophobic city that feels full of possibility even as it closes in on you. \u003ci\u003eCity Sun Eater in the River of Light\u003c\/i\u003e is concise, powerful, anxious - barreling headlong into an uncertain, constantly shifting new world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodsist","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50469962285387,"sku":"1159639","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a1a89011-db1b-4af6-b6d4-034e1288b404_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727370182"},{"product_id":"songs-of-shame","title":"Songs Of Shame","description":"\u003cp\u003eComes with free Woodsist CD Sampler. We love Woods here at Rough Trade. The fourth full-length by woods, 'Songs of Shame', veers away from the lo-figuerillas-in-the-mist sound of their previous shrimper long-player, 'at rear house', and presents both 90-second and ten-minute forays into skeletal psychedelia. the idiosyncratic songwriting style and vocalizing of jeremy earlis still present in spades on the album. Woods have toured incessantly as a trio over the last 12 months, and the 'Songs on Shame' have had their mettle tested. check out the straight-ahead pop of 'to clean' or the 'neil jung' push \/ pull of 'crain on'. elsewhere, an expansive side of the band hinted at on their woods 'family creeps' lp finds full flight on the subtle ten-minute stretch 'september with pete' (that features peter nolan of magik markers guesting).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodsist","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50483422724427,"sku":"311831","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50483423117643,"sku":"311830","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/d3e36c63-a748-4da1-b74e-ed80aa3311d7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727566945"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_8752310d_thumbnail_4096_2362886e-df1d-484a-8827-4c0b54a3ccfd.jpg?v=1726762259","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/woods.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}