WOODEN SHJIPS - V. LP DC soul and completely untethered and unscripted

and completely untethered and unscripted at seemingly random intervals—it’s an album that fluctuates between extreme discipline and control on one end and an almost feral energy on the other

recorded in 1974 with William Sheller's string arrangements

While the band gained cult status thanks in part to a Jonathan Demme-produced music video which aired on Saturday Night Live

releasing two more studio albums in the same vein—Desertshore (1970) and The End

seems to have tested his boundaries to the maximum

WOODEN SHJIPS - V. LP DC soul and completely untethered and unscriptedWooden Shjips, long time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. The quartet of Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, Nash Whalen and Ripley Johnson augment their already rich sound with laid back, classic summer songs. The songs were written during the summer of 2017 by singer and guitarist Ripley Johnson as an antidote to the pervasive anxiety both political and natural. As Ripley tells it, We had huge forest fires