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Apr 7, 2016City Sun Eater in the River of Light is another accomplished album that’s just strong enough to differentiate itself from the pack.
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MagnetJun 1, 2016A comfortable but nonetheless adventurous next step for this secretly brilliant band. [No. 131, p.61]
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Apr 21, 2016City Sun Eater in the River of Light is also one of 2016’s most interesting and restrained records so far.
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Apr 11, 2016Every single layer here swims together to create an unceasingly fluid song cycle of ebb-and-flow paranoia and pleasure.
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Q MagazineApr 8, 2016Fans of Real Estate in particular, will be in ecstasy. [Jun 2016, p.117]
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UncutApr 8, 2016A certain crispness is now prevalent, along with expanded horizons. [May 2016, p.82]
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Apr 8, 2016Whether he’s steering the band into uncharted territory or showing off his roots, it always sounds undoubtedly like a Woods album--and that’s perhaps the greatest achievement of all.
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Apr 7, 2016Anyone willing to make the leap with the band will find that the adventurousness and exploration displayed by all involved pay off with yet another impressive Woods album to add to their collection.
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Apr 28, 2016Across a decade and eight LPs, Brooklyn fivepiece Woods have perfected a lo-fi folk prone to spastic jam breakdowns. Ninth offering City Sun Eater in the River of Light now shatters any preconceived notions.
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Apr 7, 2016All of those tracks work because they’re never played as straight genre experiments; they all sound first and foremost like Woods songs, even when they draw from a different vocabulary than any that came before.
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Apr 13, 2016Going the high fidelity route was definitely a risk this far into Woods’ existence, but the band never fully embraced the lo-fi label, and City Sun Eater proves that everything about them sounds just as strong with or without the fuzz.
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Apr 7, 2016A new Woods album will not always be occasion to reinvest, but they’ve become the perfect example of a consistently rewarding band worth checking in on every other year or so.
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