The Wooden Shjips Thread

is there a place to (legally) download the horror tour ep?

As I mentioned a few posts up, on iTunes for $6.

oops, missed that post! thx

Copies of the West bonus 7" are showing up separately these days. Got one on pre-order.

saw these guys last week - played sikkk cover of 'buddy' by snapper

^underrated

that sounds so awesome, I love that tune and that EP kills

^cosign bigtime

damn, maybe I should have grabbed that EP earlier after all...

Wait my bad I tht Sleeve was talking about the Snapper EP

Finally managed to get a reasonably priced copy of the Shjips 7" with the Snapper cover off eBay last week. Took long enough.

http://youtu.be/fwxCbE3T7q4

I tht Sleeve was talking about the Snapper EP

I was!

saw these guys last week - played sikkk cover of 'buddy' by snapper

yeah, but they've been doing this for five years by my count

*rimshot*

I have to admit, I listened to that and thought "sounds like every other WS song."

idk tenderizer, i have not seen them before - thought it may have been something novel for aus/NZ audiences. kiwi friend at the show was beside himself about it!

no worries, just joking abt the similarities between their sound and "buddy". it's a great song, and they're a phenomenal live band.

new album trailer
http://vimeo.com/71853120

nice LZII vibe on the sleeve

this is apparently a big crossover album? people sure are up and down on the wooden shjips.

lol crossover ... to where?

it's gonna be HUGE.
i like this new one a lot, their progress into being a straightforward rock band has been surprisingly successful, imo.
there are a few big Neil Young moments on this one.

"a rock audience" (rather than?) i dunno. i saw they have won over dero http://www.wbez.org/blogs/jim-derogatis/2013-09/rim-shots-willis-earl-beal-bongos-and-wooden-shjips-108713

Consider this an early head’s up: The album won’t be released by Chicago’s beloved Thrill Jockey until November 12, but I haven’t been able to stop listening since I downloaded the advance a few weeks ago, and you need to know about these timeless, hypnotic, swirling, psychedelic melodies now. The San Francisco quartet has been recording since the mid-2000s—giant slabs of dark mystery built on the familiar elements of droning organ, fuzzed-out guitar, whispered vocals, and insistent, metronomic drums—in the grand tradition of the Velvet Underground to the Dream Syndicate and Spacemen 3 to the Black Angels. But after going back and devouring the back catalog, I can say they’ve never been as consistent, entrancing, necessary, and just plain perfect as they are on these eight new jams.

i bought a ticket to the record release show as soon as i saw crazy horse. i liked them enough in their previous state, but i'll pay $14 to see a cut rate crazy horse.

I just can't picture these guys as a mainstream rock act. granted I haven't heard the new one but...

i didn't even know there was a rock mainstream anymore tbh
it seems ridic to think that the shjips are gonna blow up the charts but who knows
i just want to hear some lumbering jams

xp "mainstream" is stretching it -- what's a mainstream rock act these days, anyway? kings of leon or something?

anyhoo, w/ the neil young stuff, the last song on the new shjips sounds like an homage to this deep cut
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc65mHWrS1k

well, yeah - Kings of Leon. uh the Black Keys I guess?

these guys just seem off in their own little world, completely insulated from larger market trends. which is fine, that's how I like it for the most part.

Arcade Fire, are they a rock band?

ha! crossover.

i'm excited for this. Shjips + CAVE for that release show has me looking at bus tickets & times and trying to make that trip.

huh didn't know Interstate was a Ragged Glory outtake

that version i posted is actually the int'l harvesters version from 85ish, but yeah, he recorded it for ragged glory (and then for whatever reason, put it out on the vinyl broken arrow). definitely one of his best "unknown" songs.

Streaming in full here: http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2013/nov/04/wooden-shjips-back-to-land-album-stream

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEsuD_K4sUU

ripley seems like a super nice dude from that video, wkiw, but the show friday did not electrify me
i think they suffered from overly good opening bands tbh

Wanted to come up for that show really bad, but had to work. Assuming that they followed CAVE, which would be tough. Really liking the new record though.

Bobby Matador from Oneida with some measured half-praise: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/bobby-matador-wooden-shjips

They not only followed CAVE, but they followed Rabble Rabble, whose drummer is so fun to watch and so good. I feel like they almost didn't stand a chance even though they weren't at all bad or anything like that. They were quite buoyant, really. I just wasn't feeling it too strongly. I'll admit that I left after 4 songs. Maybe it got super incredible after that, dunno.

cave would probably be the worst band to have to follow

this was the first band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyXQIgjhh_8

haha wow yeah she is good

fingertapping on the end there a little regrettable but otherwise sweet!

someone tweeted an in-the-flesh picture of the new album today - not a massive fan but this thing looks great:

https://twitter.com/dannykellywords/status/399906456939405314

Was annoyed to see it in Rough Trade East last night (the version with the bonus 7"). Got mine sent from Thrill Jockey to my Sister-In-Law's in the US, thinking only TJ would have the bonus 7" & their shipping to the UK being more hideous than it should be. Oh well, I did get a bonus iTunes download of one of the 7" tracks...which is only valid in the US store.

Feel like this band is everything I hate about psych rock, just like long boring songs with no energy and standard psych guitar solos.

so what do you like about psych rock

very possible i just like long boring songs with no energy and standard psych guitar solos.
i dunno, i get what you mean, but for whatever reason i always enjoy wooden shjips

is this west coast tour any good?

thinking about seeing them saturday night but was not impressed with "west" and have not heard "back to land"

bump

i meant to respond to this before but i forgot
the show i saw was merely ok. as i mentioned, the opening bands were hard to follow, and the shjips formula sounded overly evident by the time they went on, but that might not be their fault. i did start to get the suspicion that their new album was overhyped by people who don't listen to a lot of music like this (so it sounded more interesting to them than it did to me).

not a bad time, but not mind blowing by any stretch.