Woods

A lo-fi indie folk-pop band from Brooklyn, NY, Woods feature members of the indie rock band Meneguar and are associated with the Woodsist label. Founded as a side project for Meneguar bandmembers Jeremy Earl and Christian DeRoeck, Woods made their recording debut in 2005 with How to Survive In/In the Woods, a double-cassette release on the Fuckittapes label. In 2007 there was a series of Woods releases including the limited-edition 7" vinyl single Ram on Gilgongo Records; the full-length album At Rear House, released on the Woodsist label in association with the Shrimper label; and a CD reissue of How to Survive In/In the Woods, also on Woodsist/Shrimper. Among this series of releases, At Rear House was particularly well received, earning lots of positive write-ups on the Internet. The successive full-length Woods release, Woods Family Creeps (2008), released on Time-Lag Records, marked the inclusion of new bandmembers Jarvis Taveniere (also of Meneguar) and G. Lucas Crane. A 7" vinyl single, Sunlit (2008), was released around the same time on Captured Tracks. Follow-up album Songs of Shame (2009), released on Woodsist/Shrimper, was another well-received effort by the band from a critical standpoint. Most notably, upon its release Songs of Shame was championed by tastemaking indie website Pitchfork as some of the year's "Best New Music," a high-profile accolade that generated widespread buzz about Woods. The singles Dark (released on Captured Tracks) and To Clean/Rain on Radio (issued by the U.K. label Half Machine) appeared later that year. Ever busy, the group released their third album, At Echo Lake, in late spring of 2010 and followed it up a year later with Sun and Shade. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi...

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