Discovered recently: Wooden Shjips

Better late than never, it is only recently that I discovered this San Francisco band called Wooden Shjips and their first album (well also titled Wooden Shjips), which dates back from ... 2007.

Their inspiration they obviously take from good old pschydelic rock and ... it works! Most tracks here exceed the now so usual 3 to 4 minutes duration and they rely on recepies like a somehow hypnotic drums - bass line. Then guitar riffs that draw lightnings and a voice that clearly evokes Jim Morrisson make the thing look completely like a heavily cloudy sky.

The atmosphere here reminds Great Ancients and - but this personnal - I feel glad that people dare continue playing like this in spite of the allmighty musical business and its formatting rules!

Two links:

• We ask you to rise (this album's fastest track) on YouTube
• Samples of the complete album at Amazon