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I wrote a review for psych-ambient group Woodsman’s new self-titled, released day before yesterday.
“. . . I had the impression of beginning in the woods and ending up elsewhere, a good sign for a psychedelic recording. It reminds me of a fantasy series, Roger Zelazny’s The Chronicles of Amber, in which the main character arrives on other planes by walking and simultaneously imagining the destination piece by piece, subtracting elements that don’t fit, thus shifting the landscape around him until he has arrived at the place he’d envisioned. It’s a good model for how each track tends to progress – movement in pieces, like clay being shaped.”
Check out the full review here.
angel tones filtering through staticky midnight TV
“A melodic focus would be hard to pinpoint, as everything else drifts in and out, creating a cloud of sound in which the movement is slow but constant and all elements are dialed way down. After all this painstaking distillation, what you have is an extremely atmospheric, rhythm-based album, one whose experiments bring it to the border of alternative R&B and ambient psychedelia.”
Full review here.
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floatsy, unraveling, dream music
simply warm and homey, fuzzy and wuzzy, bagpipey and rattley
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the ending trumpet.