Sun and Shade
Album | Woods
Fireside folk weirdos get melodic.
Releasing records at an impressive one-per-year rate, Sun and Shade comes just on the heels of 2009's promising Songs of Shame and 2010's breakthrough At Echo Lake. Much like the ragtag Brooklyn collective's previous efforts, Sun and Shade expands, contracts, and reinvents itself several times over the course of its 45 minutes. The sprawling psych ventures "Out of the Eye" and "Sol y Sombra" reflect Woods' jam-happy live performances, while leader Jeremy Earl's often-quivering vocals, like a distorted, bedroom folk take on Neil Young, gently fill the melodies of more fleshed-out and accessible songs like "Pushing Onlys" and "Any Other Day." Though still as hazy and sun kissed as the sepia-toned polaroids that often adorn their album covers, Sun and Shade displays the group's most textured and melodic material to date. Much like Animal Collective and Akron/Family have in recent years, Woods haven taken lo-fi folk out of the bedroom, and headed outside for a night around the campfire.
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