West - Wooden Shjips
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  • Summary: The San Francisco quartet releases another album of psychedelic rock.

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  1. Positive: 21 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 27
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  1. Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM)
    Sep 23, 2011
    83
    Heavy, lyrically well-tread and packing a mean proto-motorik groove, from start to finish it has an automotive heartbeat with both eyes on the horizon. It is the sound of Wooden Shjips finally bringing it on home.
  2. All Music Guide
    Sep 14, 2011
    80
    With West, WS plays post-history psychedelia; it is as necessary -- and freaky -- as anything from the eras that influenced it.
  3. Delusions of Adequacy
    Sep 26, 2011
    80
    West ties in all of the band's strengths for an excellent outlook on what the destiny towards west might feel like and with it, an album of stellar psychedelic rock.
  4. Tiny Mix Tapes
    Oct 6, 2011
    60
    There are certainly moments of well-crafted, spaced-out music, but West is not as overwhelming as it could be. And to be honest, even after several listens, all the songs in West still sound pretty much the same.

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