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WOODS - "Ram" 7" (GGGR-003). OUT OF PRINT.
one time pressing of 1000 copies, all on opaque white.

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WOODS.
Half of NYC band MENEGUAR (though everyone helps out on this recording)! Precise songwriting meets mind-expanding experimental folk. Beautifully recorded follow up to their double cassette on Fuck It Tapes and much more "song" oriented than their material on the already out of print split LP with Raccoo-oo-oon. Beyond intense full color art with a ram emerging from the dark, shady woods! For fans of everything from Amps for Christ to Little Wings to Wooden Wand.

REVIEWS.

(Byron Coley | The Wire).
Unlike the Woods group, whose main members were surnamed Woods, the group Woods are comprised of two members from Meneguar, one of whom runs the classic Fuck It Tapes label. This heritage doesn't exactly spell "wanton acoustic seepage" in my book, but that just means I need a new library card. Ram is a combination of campfire folk and strange assembly techniques that should make mouth-breathers everywhere tingle with desire. Indeed, there is much to like about the way these guys play by the numbers, then fall apart and reassemble themselves in different guises. Gotta say, the new folk reaction to noise is pretty damn dandy.

(Indie Workshop | Indieworkshop.com).
"Made up of half of the foursome that make up Meneguar, Woods is a project that brings together the good point of free folk and marries it with typical song structure. Side A, "Ram", starts of innocently enough. A nice heartfelt diddy that naturally flows into an atmospheric, improv jam session. A great introduction to the band if you didn't get a chance to grab their tape on the famous Fuck It Tapes. The B side starts of with "Woods Children", and it's like some early GY!BE track… on acid… with children talking instead of crazy street prophets. Then they close out the 7" with "Do They Smoke Cigarettes in Heaven", an upbeat, toe-taper that will easily get stuck in your head for a few hours. It's a great song, and a great way to leave the people salivating for more. Good stuff, I recommend it for anyone who digs the more coherent moments of WW/VV."

(Doug Mosurak | dustedmagazine.com).
Woods is a side project of NYC indie rock band Meneguar, featuring all of its members at some point or another. The music has more to do with the member they share with Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice, all acoustic rolling strum and pounding drums punctuating a mountainous folk music sound. “Woods Children” is a hissy field recording of kids with a sickly detuned group playing beneath, and the other two tracks are more studio-oriented. Not quite a standout, though other songs from the session may bear more fruit. In any event, Meneguar is where it’s at, so definitely check them out. Edition of 1000 on white vinyl.

(The Z-Gun | zgun.net).
A very cool record here. Three songs long: Two twangy, jangly folkies - one with a Neil Young vibe to it, the other reminding me a bit of Bert Jansch - both run through the modern freak filter, and one song made out of a track of a kid singing, the backing music subdued primitive psychedelia. The overall feeling of this one is "at one's ends," though not as out sounding as Pink Reason, a band which would make a great double bill with Woods. -- Scott Soriano.