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Six tracks of minimal bass riffage, vaporous vocals and fuzztone mayhem may not sound like the most original night in that you've ever had, but for some reason this band have got something extra. Opening track ''We Ask You To Ride'' initially comes on like a Farfisa 'n' LSD Doors parody, but after one minute and forty seconds the guitar bites and suddenly you're in a MUCH better place. Cleverly, going at a less-than-rushed tempo helps draw you into this mind-melting miasma. Like some kind of dayglo Neu! They turn 3 notes into a universe of sound.
"Losin' Time'' bludgeons you with power chords, yet by ''Lucy's Ride'' and ''Blue Sky Bends'' the sugar cube's really kicked in, and the Shjips are going at a snail's pace to infinity; drawling, drooling and intoning! The final track "Shine Like Suns" is, however, the masterstroke. Over ten minutes of stately, fried grey cells. Yummy!
In the end this is psychedelic music, force fed through a post modern filter. We now live in an age where it's not only hip to reference the motorik sensibilities of Krautrock, but also ok to say you like Hawkwind, a band whose tail-end addition to the psych freakfest was viewed by the cognoscenti at the time as something of a joke. Now the crudity of their three note vamps are rightly applauded for the ability to transport us to Alpha Centauri using only endless jamming as their rocket fuel. Wooden Shjips understand the methodology and are also able to do something slightly new with it. It's for certain that fans of Spaceman 3 will love this. But anyone who understands the link between the West Coast, Ladbroke Grove and Cologne will also feel right at home. --Chris Jones
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Track 3 - Lucy's Ride - is fantastic. A rolling pyschedelic foot tapper with a wonderful, almost funky guitar lick. Get in there!
This music calls on the spirit of Stockhausen, early Can, the Velvet Underground, Guru Guru and the Grateful Dead. Very few people will hear it, very few will buy it but in 100 years people will still listen to it. It's majesty music. I heard it for the first time in late November 2007 in a crowded noisy record fair - it shone through like a beacon. Feed your head and buy it
I'm surprised nobody has noted the references to mid-period Amon Duul 2 - heavy riffs with long spaced-out improvisations. Listen to Stumbling Over Melted Moonlight and Toxicological Whispering on 'Tanze der Lemminge' or Pale Gallery on 'Yeti'. Yeti: Remastered
Great stuff - I hope they come and perform in the UK one day!
i came across the wooden shjips a few months back
and that's all i have played mostly since ... Read more
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