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October 26th, 2007 - San Francisco
San Franciscan wierdos Wooden Shjips (trust me that is their real name and not a typo) are hugely influenced by the far-out, LSD induced experimentalism of psychedelia, with a small measure of prog rock excess thrown in for good luck.The lazy, hazy groove, fizzing, fuzzy guitars, pounding bass topped of with haunting half sung half spoken vocals is a blood relation of the glacial psych/garage rock of Crocodiles era Echo & The Bunnymen crossed with the sun-bleached tremolo-punk of Australia's The Scientistsand the nightmarish nursery rhyming of the solo Syd Barrett. There are hints of krautrock, the hammond organ haze of The Doors, Spacemen 3 style droning freak outs and the classic progressive psych of The Soft Machine. These influences congeal like blood on a day old wound on their self-titled Holy Mountain debut which quickly on the heels of the band's single on the legendary Sub Pop.

With glowing endorsements from legendary critics like David Fricke (Rolling Stone) and Byron Coley (The Wire, Forced Exposure, Arthur, et al) as well as visionary labels Holy Mountain and Sub Pop, appearances with the godfather of psychedelia Roky Erikson (NoisePop 2007) and the SXSW Music Conference in Austin, and a scheduled appearance at the CMJ music festival in New York City, Wooden Shjips are set to sail into the big time.

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