Artist Wooden Shjips
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Wooden Shjips
Wooden Shjips evoke the hazy psychedelia of San Francisco’s past without lapsing into repetitive imitation. The Bay Area quartet draws on lo-fi garage-rock and fuzzy trance to produce a sound that is at once archaic and devotedly nostalgic. Inspired by obscure albums and lost books, leader Ripley Johnson developed the band as a concept—recruiting members for instruments they’d never played—but let it evolve into a more refined musical project. 2007’s self-titled full-length is the band's most widely distributed recording to date, but Wooden Shjips continues its steady stream of kraut-influenced rock with limited EPs and the occasional single.
Updated 10/14/2009
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