“The foundations of Brooklyn’s Woods lie in the small rear-house apartment bedroom of Jeremy Earl, who took to recording his eerily somber acoustic songs in 2005 as little more than a humble personal outlet. After two early albums and several singles which saw Earl still honing his sound, Woods released “Songs of Shame” in 2009 to widespread critical acclaim and offered the band a chance to develop their live sound on the back of a massive touring schedule. During this period, the live line-up solidified with the inclusion of multi-instrumentalist Jarvis Taveniere, bassist Kevin Morby and cassette-collage maestro G. Lucas Crane. While the band’s early recordings had mixed haunting folk and distorted sound-scape journeys, their new live show offered Kraut-rock inspired fugues and Crazy Horse-style romps, infusing Earl’s dirges with an off-kilter energy and a sense of looming chaos.

 

With their live sound now in place, the band released the equally lauded follow-up albums “At Echo Lake” and “Sun and Shade”, which continued to explore their signature mix of sun soaked pop and psychedelic meditations. All were released on Earl’s Woodsist label which, in addition to being the band’s home, has achieved an influential status in its own right, releasing records from Real Estate, White Fence and Kurt Vile, to name a few.

 

While creating their newest record, “Bend Beyond”, the band abandoned their usual recording process, which favored immediacy above all – some songs were recorded just mere minutes after their creation – and instead sought to capture elements of their dynamic live sound. To this end, Taveniere joined Earl in his upstate home in the Fall of 2011 and the pair produced the twelve song album, which features the epic title song, a recent centerpiece to the band’s live set.

 

While the core sound of Woods will always be Earl’s strikingly pure falsetto voice spilling dark secrets and twisted images, the group has never been content to coast on established formulas or sonic habits. With the recent addition of Aaron Neveu on drums to the live band, freeing up Taveniere to focus solely on guitar, the ever-evolving group has extensive touring plans for the Fall of 2012 to coincide with the release of Bend Beyond.”

 Justin Sullivan

from Woods Officilal Site

 

Woods – How To Survive In/In The Woods

Label:Release The Bats Records 

Format:CD, Album, Remastered, Limited Edition 

Country:US

Released:2006

Limited edition of 500 copies. 

Originally released as a double cassette on “Fuck It Tapes”.

Tracklist

1 Holes 1:58

2 Kid’s Got Heart 2:45

3 How To Survive In 3:16

4 8-5 5-10 1:59

5 Silence Is Golden 3:17

6 Keep It On 3:18

7 God Hates The Faithless 4:01

8 Angel’s Trumpet 5:01

9 Broke 2:45

10 I Get By 1:50

11 In The Woods 3:04

12 Make Time For Kitty 3:20

13 Holier Than No One 5:06

Woods – At Rear House

Label: Woodsist -Shrimper 

Format:LP, CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:2007

Tracklist

1 Don’t Pass On Me 2:56

2 Hunover 2:54

3 Keep It On 2:55

4 Be Still 4:08

5 Woods Children, Pt. 2 2:37

6 Ring Me To Sleep 2:33

7 Night Creature 4:13

8 Walk The Dogs 5:59

9 Love Song For Pigeons 3:35

10 Bone Tapper 3:55

11 Picking Up The Pieces 6:13

Woods Family Creeps – Woods Family Creeps

Label:Time-Lag Records – TLR-RR-002

Format:CD, Album, Limited Edition 

Country:US

Released:2008

Performer – G Lucas Crane*, Jeremy Earl, Jarvis Taveniere*

Edition of 1000 copies.

Tracklist

1 End To End 2:28

2 Creeps Collage 4:37

3 Twisted Tongue 2:24

4 Family 6:40

5 Howling On Howling 3:30

6 Diamond Days 4:06

7 Spike 1:40

8 Sleep Sleep Sleep 4:57

9 The Creeps 3:10

Woods – Songs Of Shame

Label: Woodsist -Shrimper 

Format:CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:2009

Recorded At Rear House, Brooklyn NY 

In Memory of James Douglas Ewing. Rest In Peace

Tracklist

1 To Clean 2:17

2 The Hold 2:42

3 The Number 2:52

4 September With Pete 9:40

5 Down This Road 1:37

6 Military Madness 3:12

7 Born To Lose 1:59

8 Echo Lake 2:04

9 Rain On 3:28

10 Gypsy Hand 4:24

Woods – Some Shame

Label:Not On Label

Format:Cassette, Limited Edition, C40 

Country:US

Released:2009

Linear Notes from J Card – Side A from the album “Songs of Shame” recorded at Rear House. Side B recorded at Blackrock/Warwick – NY, ft Dummer/Brattleboro – VT, and Rear House. Additional guitar on side B by DMS. Woods – 229 Bushwick Ave Apt RH Brooklyn, NY 11206 For our West Coast Tour November 2008. Peace.

Tour-only cassette in an edition of 100

Tracklist

1 To Clean

2 The Hold

3 Down This Road

4 Rain On

5 Gypsy Hand

6 Where And What Are You?

7 Born To Lose

8 World

9 Military Madness

10 Untitled

Woods- Daytrotter

released  Oct 7, 2009

Tracks

1  Welcome to Daytrotter

2  Death Rattles

3  Suffering Season

4  Time Fading Lines

5  Where And What Are You?

Woods – At Echo Lake

Label:Woodsist 

Format: Vinyl, LP, CD, Cassette, Album 

Country:US

Released:04 May 2010

Tracklist

1 Blood Dries Darker 4:29

2 Pick Up 2:28

3 Suffering Season 3:06

4 Time Fading Lines 3:39

5 From The Horn 2:04

6 Death Rattles 3:24

7 Mornin’ Time 1:52

8 I Was Gone 1:53

9 Get Back 2:05

10 Deep 1:59

11 Till The Sun Rips 2:23

Woods – Sun And Shade

Label:Woodsist 

Format:Vynil, LP, Cassette, CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:2011

Tracklist

1 Pushing Onlys

2 Any Other Day

3 Be All Be Easy

4 Out Of The Eye

5 Hand It Out

6 To Have In The Home

7 Sol Y Sombre

8 Wouldn’t Waste

9 Who Do I Think I Am

10 What Faces The Sheet

11 While Out

12 Say Goodbye

Woods / Amps For Christ ‎– Woods / Amps For Christ

Label: Shrimper 

Format: CD 

Country: US

Released:  2012

Tracklist

1 Woods  – Sleep

2 Woods  & Amps For Christ – From Oatmeal To Buttermilk

3 Woods  – Wind Was The Wine

4 Woods  – Brothers

5 Woods  – September Saturn

6 Amps For Christ – When

7 Amps For Christ – Native Chantz

8 Amps For Christ – Lord Bateman(Child #53)

9 Amps For Christ – Roto Koto In C Major

Woods – Bend Beyond

Label:Woodsist 

Format:Vynil, LP, CD, Album 

Country:US

Released:18 Sep 2012

Written-By, Recorded By – Woods (2)

Written and recorded by Woods & family at Buttermilk Falls and Rear House, Warwick, Brooklyn, NY

Tracklist

1 Bend Beyond 4:25

2 Cali In A Cup 3:22

3 Is It Honest? 2:38

4 It Ain’t Easy 2:24

5 Cascade 1:55

6 Back To The Stone 2:54

7 Find Them Empty 2:15

8 Wind Was The Wine 1:29

9 Lily 2:10

10 Size Meets Sound 3:02

11 Impossible Sky 3:03

12 Something Surreal 2:36

 

 

WOODS

US BOOKING: john@groundcontroltouring.com / ground control touring

UK/EU BOOKING : steven@toutpartout.be / toutpartout

PRESS : danielmarkgill@gmail.com / force field pr

UK PRESS: : nita@goldstarpr.com / goldstar pr

BAND CONTACT: woodsfamilyband@gmail.com

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