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9.0
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AU Review
Expect Wooden Shjips to pip Moon Duo and Josh T. Pearson in end of year polls. Exceptional
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8.3
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Beats Per Minute
Heavy, lyrically well-tread and packing a mean proto-motorik groove, from start to finish it has an automotive heartbeat with both eyes on the horizon
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8.0
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The Skinny
Ripley Johnson’s outfit remains very much not of this time
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8.0
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Drowned In Sound
One of only a tiny handful of bands currently using retrospective influences from the past to create something relevant and unique for the present and beyond
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8.0
30384
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Clash
A remarkably dense, intense affair
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8.0
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The Guardian
It's the unrelenting power of the two-chord drones, though, that is the real draw here
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8.0
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BBC
Here finally is a psychedelic audio experience with sufficient focus and momentum to ‘take you there’ without dozing off on the job
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8.0
30088
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Mojo
Clarity becomes them, offering Shjips' hallmark rhythmic snap a heightened impact. Print edition only
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8.0
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The Quietus
Sees the band stepping up their game in every aspect
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8.0
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The Digital Fix
West is quite clearly the band's finest hour yet
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7.5
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A.V. Club
Wooden Shjips is the rare act that actually sounds like it originates from the late ’60s and early ’70s, perhaps because the group has an affinity for the same blues and R&B music their heroes had
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7.3
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Pitchfork
The band is very much doing what it does on West
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7.0
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PopMatters
Wooden Shjips shoot straight into that barely circulating heart of rhythm and blues and reopen a vein of noise that it is difficult not to pump along with
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7.0
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Consequence Of Sound
All told, West might repel listeners with short attention spans, but with a bit of patience, its coherence pummels any monotony
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7.0
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Bowlegs
There’s a relentless energy to this album, with blankets of distortion and chimes of organ music on a burnt out trip
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7.0
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NME
It's impossible not to bow down to West. Print edition only
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7.0
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Blurt
The Wooden Shjips are the real deal, and West gets about as good, and as far out, as it gets
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7.0
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Prefix
And like any good road trip, Wooden Shjips songs are much more about the journey than the destination
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6.0
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Tiny Mix Tapes
Wooden Shjips seems to be lost in time, wandering back and forth, hopping from year to year in a defective time machine without finding a place and time of their own
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6.0
30016
6.0 |
Uncut
More rock music should be this reduced and addictive. Print edition only
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6.0
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6.0 |
Q
They're getting better and better at saying the same thing. Print edition only
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6.0
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Rave Magazine
Like side-project Moon Duo, the record lacks a sense of identity
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6.0
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The Independent
Drugs may have been involved
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