With Light & With Love | The Woods

Vinyl LP pressing. 2014 release from the Indie outfit. Woods' brand of Pop shamanism has undergone several gradual transformations over their past few albums, but on "With Light And With Love," the tinkering reveals an expanded sonic palette that includes singing with heavier emphasis on percussion and a saloon piano that sounds like it was rescued from a flooded basement. Distinct from both the stoned folk of their earliest recordings and the kraut-y dalliances of more recent fare, "With Light And With Love" showcases a more sophisticated brand of contemporary drug music that owes more to Magical Mystery Tour than motorik. Throughout the album, vocals are frequently emitted through Leslie speakers and guitars perform one-string ragas like Sandy Bull reared on Shoegaze and skate videos. "With Light and With Love" is an album of deeply Psychedelic, deeply satisfying songs for a new age of searchers, of Don Juan and Animal Chin alike.