The 11 Best Songs By Woods

There’s a gift at being good at being lo-fi.  Just because you have a 4-track in your bedroom and a guitar doesn’t mean that you have what it takes.  In fact, it’s probably harder to be a good lo-fi artist than it is to be a mainstream pop artist.  Yes, you heard that right.  In a genre where less is more, there are no bells or whistles to cover up your faults.  You have to be good at the most basic level of music.  Lo-fi artists are like bikini models.  Just because you have a cute face and a dream isn’t enough. When you strip down and take everything off, if you’re not able to hold your own…you’re left out on your own. 

Woods has made a solid career of doing more with less.  Basked in the days of bands like early Sebadoh and Daniel Johnston, they return with the biggest and best album to date.

Here are the 11 best songs by Woods:

1.  Suffering Season (At Echo Lake)
2.  Rain On (Songs Of Shame)
3.  Death Rattles (At Echo Lake)
4.  Military Madness (Songs Of Shame)
5.  Bone Tapper (At Rear House)
6.  Broke (How To Survive + In The Woods)
7.  Blood Dries Darker (At Echo Lake)
8.  Time Fading Lines (At Echo Lake)
9.  Be Still (At Rear House)
10.  Til the Sun Rips (At Echo Lake)
11.  To Clean (Songs Of Shame)

Songs compliments of Daytrotter.


Buy Woods new album, Sun and Shade...now!!

The 11 Best Albums of 2009...that you've never heard

I think this is the first list I've made where the struggle in constructing the list didn't come from the quality of music...but on the criteria I set forth in making the list. Coming up with some of the best albums so far this year this easy...but trying to figure out which ones were unknown (or at least lesser known) was a hard to call to make. I have no idea what albums you've heard about...so this is really my best guess. There's the obvious choices like Black Moth Super Rainbow, White Rabbits, Deastro, and Swan Lake who were on the list...but I know people have heard of these bands. To some degree. Right?

The Antlers sounds like someone smashed Radiohead and Sigur Ros together. A very underrated band who has slipped through the cracks for too long. Hot Leg is Justin Hawkins new band...long live glam metal! Samantha Crain is the anti-Neko Case (or at least a better version). The Veils, Papercuts, and Other Lives are the indie equivalent of the bands carrying on the Coldplay/U2 sound. Cymbals, Cut Off Hands, and Magic are some great upbeat indie rock. J. Tillman and Woods are this year's Fleet Foxes. Yeah, yeah...I know Tillman is in Fleet Foxes.

I hope you discover something new and great with this list....

The 11 Best Albums of 2009...that you've never heard:

1. The Antlers - Hospice (Sylvia)
2. Samantha Crain - Songs In the Night (Devil's In Boston)
3. Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why Are There Mountains
4. The Veils - Sun Gangs (Sit Down By The Fire)
5. Woods - Songs Of Shame
6. Cut Off Your Hands - You & I (You & I)
7. Hot Leg - Right Light Fever (Gay in the 80s)
8. Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want
9. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic (Only Pieces)
10. Other Lives - Other Lives (It Was The Night)
11. J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues (No Occassion)

Buy these albums now! HERE.