Wooden Shjips, by Wooden Shjips (LP on Holy Mountain)

A Norman Records recommendation (5th October 2007)

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Format:	LP
Label:	Holy Mountain
Price:	£12.99
Catalogue number:	011235813LP
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Rating: happy This record left Steve Dickinson feeling happy.

Excellent album, breath of fresh air in todays market. Takes me back to the sixties when I was discovering people with adventure like Zappa Beefheart, Amon Duul II, Doors and Pink Floyd.

Review date: 31 October 2007

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Rating: ecstatic This record left our Phil feeling ecstatic.

The Wooden Shjips album is here on Holy Mountain Records. It's a 'self titled' thing and if you want to know what it sounds like it's pretty much an exact cross between The Doors, Loop and Suicide. Some tracks sound more like one of those bands than the other but they're in there somehow. It's quite fantastic how they've managed to get all of those different sounds together into a coherent new completely stoned sounding thing. It completely kicks ass though and I can't recommend it enough. The initial CD's come with a bonus CD which is well limited so I'm told... Vinyl to follow. get it while you can!

What the label says:

***Wooden Shjips, a quartet from San Francisco heavily influenced by the experimentalism of psychedelia, classical minimalism, and garage rock excess, started as an experiment in rhythmic primitivism and group improvisation. The current roster brings a more structured rock approach to its performances, utilizing a traditional lineup of drums (Omar Ahsanuddin), bass (Dusty Jermier), organ (Nash Whalen), guitar (Erik "Ripley" Johnson), and vocals.

The band released two acclaimed records in 2006, beginning early in the year with a self-released 10-inch, Shrinking Moon for You. The record quickly sold out, after capturing the attention of well-regarded tastemakers, such as Tom Lax and Byron Coley, who penned rave reviews on Siltblog, and in The Wire magazine, respectively. A 7-inch followed on the Sick Thirst label, and received similar praise from music bloggers, as well as from veteran scribe David Fricke in Rolling Stone.

The band has three 2007 releases planned: this LP/CD for Holy Mountain, a 7-inch for Sub Pop, and a 7-inch for Pollymaggoo Records. They recently played NoisePop 2007 with Roky Erickson, as well as a showcase at the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, TX.

"Wooden Shjips are from San Francisco, but the concentrated ferocity of the freakouts on their two very-underground releases--a white-label ten-inch EP (the band gave away the first 300 copies) and a clear-vinyl single ("Dance, California")--arrives via the '70s Germanic-guitar lunacy of Guru Guru and the confrontational repetition of VU." --David Fricke, Rolling Stone

"..tight-wound repeato psych guitar raunch with spoony (maybe even imaginary) percussion, surprisingly Rev-like keys, and vocals buried under burning driftwood." --Tom Lax, Siltblog