WOODEN SHJIPS - V. LP Sweater

WOODEN SHJIPS - V. LP SweaterWooden 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

’ and bass from Al Byla on ‘Sunny Day

a Lenderman song rings true

dissonant drones stained in feedback and reverberation

Part of the burgeoning international pop underground of the nineties

free 'n' hard rocking unit who took a bit of Groundhogs vim and potato ricered it through the lens of punk insouciance

with its uptempo rhythms allover and the coolest funky instrumentation played by a mysterious studio group

by which they mean trippin' the way out or getting seriously unsettled

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the GRM

It was mastered by Sonic Boom at Blanker Unisinn

some were the results of calculated compositions

While the record's first five songs were written between two LVL UP albums

He draws inspiration from alchemical and gnostic texts