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Vol 2

Wooden Shjips

Vol 2

Second compilation of rare singles and vintage covers from the San Francisco garage psychedelia specialists

ADM rating[?]

7.3

Label
Sick Thirst
UK Release date
30/03/2010
  1. 8.0 |   The List

    The tranced-out four-piece have pulled another blinder
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  2. 8.0 |   The Skinny

    For the second and even more miraculous time, Wooden Shjips have returned to a thoroughly un-cool era of rock history, and still managed to make it sound, like, totally groovy, man
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  3. 8.0 |   NME

    Their character mixes the classic (The Velvet Underground), the unusual (Suicide), the gauche (The Doors) and the hip (Guru Guru)
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  4. 8.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    While there will always be the criticism that a Wooden Shjips record is a merely an acquired taste of familiar morsels, the ripened fruits within never fail to satisfy
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  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    A fine collection of rarities, foreign label releases and tour souvenir cuts that acts as a pit stop until these cosmic rough riders propel their next full-length album through your third eye to mainline straight to your addled brain
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  7. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Print edition only

  8. 7.0 |   The Observer

    The likes of "Contact", an extended Serge Gainsbourg cover, have an agreeably hypnotic effect
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  9. 7.0 |   musicOMH

    Gives an accurate depiction of the band's hazy, woozy, sound and doped-up charms
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  10. 6.3 |   Pitchfork

    When everything sinks into the same rigid rhythm ... Wooden Shjips risk sounding like a band that's treading water instead of floating through it
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  11. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Onstage, they probably blow minds; on record, they're for genre fans only
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