Event

Woods with MV&EE and Herbcraft

New Yorkâs Woods intimates a modern rock aesthetic fully informed by historical manifestations of teenage along with a concomitant feel for the specifics of time and place. The distance between 2007âs underground gem At Rear House and 2010âs critically acclaimed At Echo Lake may at first seem only semantic but it more properly represents a move from a kind of informal back porch jam ethos to a fully-committed vision of the infinite possibilities of group playing. Over the past few years Woods have established themselves as an anomaly in a world of freaks. They were an odd proposition even in the outrÃ© company of vocalist/guitarist/label owner Jeremy Earlâs Woodsist roster, perpetually out of time, committed to songsmanship in an age of noise, drone and improvisation, to extended soloing, oblique instrumentals and the usurping use of tapes and F/X in an age of dead-end singer-songwriters. Woodsâ secret weapon is the quality of Earlâs voice, osmosing the naive style of Jad Fair, Jonathan Richman and Neil Young while re-thinking it as a discipline and a tradition. He is singing at the peak of his powers, in a high soulful style that is bolstered by heavenly arrangements of backing vocals. MV&EE, outlaws from the frontiers of folk, will open along with Portland's own Herbcraft, both having recently released the first two albums on Woodsist vinyl-only imprint, Hello Sunshine.