Track Listing

1. Motorbike
2. For So Long
3. Down By The Sea
4. Aquarian Time
5. Fallin'

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #19326 in Music
• Released on: 2009-04-27
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Dimensions: .13 pounds

CD Description
Psych-garage revivalists Wooden Shjips are the natural de-evolution from San Francisco's original guitar-trance movement. Their latest EP, DOS, has elements of key influences likethe 13th Floor Elevators, but allows hardened riffs and ADDAM'S FAMILY organs to unfurl virtually ad infinitum on several-minute drifters like "Aquarian Time." "Down By The Sea" fulfills the promise of its title with 10 minutes of strangely beguiling noise, while the 11-plus-minute closer, "Fallin,'" works up a lather that avoids the menace of, say, METAL MACHINE MUSIC, and instead sounds like what might happen if neo-krautrock auteurs Audionom flirted with Jan & Dean. DOS is, in many ways, the perfect merging of a generation's disparate dabbling with calculated lo-fi and polished epics.

Customer Reviews

More than the sum of their influences
Love it that bands can still sound like this. Was loitering in Fopp records looking for a bargain when this came on. First track had me hooked. Motorbike comes on like the late lamented Loop: a grinding riff, inaudible vocals and lovely, sinuous guitar layered over the top. Stunning. For So Long sounds like Down by the River era Neil Young and Fallin' starts almost like a pop song, driven by Suicide style organ. Nothing original here but Wooden Shjips innovate as well as imitate and wear a huge range of influences well (the aforementioned bands, 'Kraut Rock' etc). If you are a fan of psychedelic rock or liked the heavier 'shoegaze' bands in the late 80s you will be playing this for weeks.
I can't wait to get into their back catalogue.

Wooden Shjips sail again!
With great enthusiasm I ordered "Dos" just to find more fantastic psyche-trancerock from Wooden Shjips! As previous recordings they maintain the concept of few,but long pieces of music. Some tracks show their "quest for the golden guitar riff",( not in the macho rock'n'roll way )but the psychedelic noise is tuned down a little bit. They can be described as a cross between Hawkwind,Neu/kraut,early Pink Floyd (and a touch of Doors-vocal style would some people say) ,but maintain both old and new (postrock?)impulses. W.S.is certainly no copyist band,always having their peculiar sound. As with the two other cd's "Dos" left me wanting more desperately,but that's the way it is with delicatessen ,isn't it? Buy the comp cd and their first album too! Exquisite!!!

The Shjips keep sailing....
This is the best album the Wooden Shjips have produced so far.
Unlike on previous albums where some tracks are a bit hit and miss, all of the songs that feature on this long player are gems.
God i love this kind of music, and if you do to - or think you might if your in the right "state of mind" - then buy this.