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- Summary: The San Francisco quartet releases another album of psychedelic rock.
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- Record Label: Thrill Jockey
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 21 out of 27
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Mixed: 6 out of 27
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Sep 23, 2011Heavy, 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.
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Aug 12, 2011It's the unrelenting power of the two-chord drones, though, that is the real draw here, bass and drums throbbing hard enough to add a real heartbeat to songs that might otherwise seem insubstantial enough to melt away. It's enervating, sunbaked and, for all that, rather thrilling.
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Sep 14, 2011With West, WS plays post-history psychedelia; it is as necessary -- and freaky -- as anything from the eras that influenced it.
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The WireAug 17, 2011There's no point chasing diminishing returns on a four-track, and the buffed-up West is a kick worth revisiting. [Aug 2011, p.63]
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Sep 14, 2011If you're fording a desert highway at dawn, these songs will get you across. They're consuming and expansive, steady and constant.
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Sep 12, 2011Wooden Shjips shoot straight into that barely circulating heart of rhythm and blues and reopen a vein of noise that it is difficult not to pump along with.
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Sep 13, 2011What was once an exciting examination of a seldom-explored corner of rock and roll has become a listless, mechanical affair.
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