Cover art for Bend Beyond
"For their seventh album, Bend Beyond,
Woods got dark. It's not that they weren't dark before-when you really get in
there and listen, Jeremy Earl is singing about some heavy stuff, but it's
hidden under his gorgeous falsetto and sometimes obtuse lyrics. On Bend
Beyond, though, Earl and company fully embrace that darkness. Album opener
"Bend Beyond," has long been a jammy live staple, but here it's
compact and tight with a stuttered guitar line and a world-ending collision of
instruments. Meanwhile "Is It Honest" jangles along happily until you
notice Earl is in a more destructive zone than the bright music initially
suggests, singing It's so fucking hard to see as both a form of comfort and an
act of despair. Instrumentally, Bend Beyond is certainly the
most full Woods record yet, guitars weave and bubble across peppy drumming, but
lyrically Earl is at his most direct and spare. While previous albums sounded
like they went directly from Earl's brain to tape with minimal outside
interference, Bend Beyondis lush and full-bodied, the work of a band
in perfect, heavy harmony. Listening to the record as a whole, it feels like
the most daring leap Woods has made yet: It captures the band's live intensity,
but keeps the intimate sadness that made them so great in the first
place."
- Sam Hockley-Smith
- Sam Hockley-Smith
WOODS
Sat-Sep-08 New York, NY
Meatopia at Randall's Island
Wed-Sep-26 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse *
Thu-Sep-27 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom *
Fri-Sep-28 Asheville, NC Orange Peel *
Sat-Sep-29 Cincinnatti, OH Midpoint Music Fest / Grammers *
Sun-Sep-30 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls *
Tue-Oct-02 Toronto, ON The Garrison
Wed-Oct-03 Ann Arbor, MI Yellow Barn
Thu-Oct-04 Chicago, IL Subterranean #
Fri-Oct-05 Madison, WI Der Rathskeller at Memorial Union #
Sat-Oct-06 St Paul, MN Turf Club #
Sun-Oct-07 Iowa City, IA The Mill #
Tue-Oct-09 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
Fri-Oct-12 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Wed-Oct-24 Austin, TX Red 7 %
Thu-Oct-25 Dallas, TX Club Dada %
Fri-Oct-26 Memphis, TN Hi Tone %
Wed-Oct-31 Chapel Hill, NC Duke Coffeehouse %
Thu-Nov-01 Richmond, VA Strange Matter %
Fri-Nov-02 Washington, DC Red Palace %
Sat-Nov-03 New York, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %#
* = with The Walkmen
# = with Purling Hiss
% = with Widowspeak
Wed-Sep-26 Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse *
Thu-Sep-27 Nashville, TN Cannery Ballroom *
Fri-Sep-28 Asheville, NC Orange Peel *
Sat-Sep-29 Cincinnatti, OH Midpoint Music Fest / Grammers *
Sun-Sep-30 Pittsburgh, PA Mr. Smalls *
Tue-Oct-02 Toronto, ON The Garrison
Wed-Oct-03 Ann Arbor, MI Yellow Barn
Thu-Oct-04 Chicago, IL Subterranean #
Fri-Oct-05 Madison, WI Der Rathskeller at Memorial Union #
Sat-Oct-06 St Paul, MN Turf Club #
Sun-Oct-07 Iowa City, IA The Mill #
Tue-Oct-09 Denver, CO Larimer Lounge
Fri-Oct-12 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios
Wed-Oct-24 Austin, TX Red 7 %
Thu-Oct-25 Dallas, TX Club Dada %
Fri-Oct-26 Memphis, TN Hi Tone %
Wed-Oct-31 Chapel Hill, NC Duke Coffeehouse %
Thu-Nov-01 Richmond, VA Strange Matter %
Fri-Nov-02 Washington, DC Red Palace %
Sat-Nov-03 New York, NY Music Hall of Williamsburg %#
* = with The Walkmen
# = with Purling Hiss
% = with Widowspeak
WOODS
Bend Beyond
CD/LP/CS/MP3
woodsist062
Street date: Sept 18, 2012
1. Bend Beyond
2. Cali In A Cup
3. Is It Honest?
4. It Ain't Easy
5. Cascade
6. Back To The Stone
7. Find Them Empty
8. Wind Was The Wine
9. Lily
10. Size Meets The Sound
11. Impossible Sky
12. Something Surreal
WOODS
Cali in a Cup 7"
woodsist061
Street date: Aug. 14, 2012
A: Cali in a Cup
B: Give Your Light Off
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