Woods - Strange To Explain

Woods - Strange To ExplainDreaming doesnt come easy these shadowed days, which is why Strange To Explain by Woods is such a welcome turning of new colors. It presents an extended moment of sweet reflection for the 15 year old band, bouncing back to earth as something hopeful and weird and resolute. Like everything else theyve recorded, it sounds exactly like themselves, but with subtly different shades and breaths and rhythmic feels and everything else that changes, the

Ben had already innovated several groundbreaking new twists on the classic samba sound

Their A-sides are like B-sides

The fact that the Hi Sheriffs were devolved from the Girls -- the BEST band Boston ever birthed

saying: “Simone doesn’t do any sounds

interconnected parts

Robert Petway Catfish Blues 7

Artwork by Sam Smith

the electronic infused eponymous Portico Quartet to 2016's return Art in the Age of Automation (the band's most electronic statement to date) they have never been a band to look backwards

ambitious noise rock narratives buoyed in a swampy sonic scene of delay

but we liked it and it did make sense to us

features their cover of kraftwerk's 'the model'

as impervious synth-pop and brain-on-fire imagery (“Tiki bar