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Pitchfork 7.3/10 Wooden Shjips turn the crunchy choogle of 1970s boogie-rock into isolation-chamber space-out fare. When it connects, that's a powerful formula. On West, the SF space-rockers make their biggest leap toward approachability, creating the first Wooden Shjips album your stoner uncle might not hate.
A.V. Club C Psych-rock outfits like Wooden Shjips are supposed to specialize in mind-shredding head music for stationary stoners. The San Francisco’s band latest album, West, has plenty of that—dig the self-explanatory opener “Black Smoke Rise”—but it also speaks surprisingly well to the hips. Buried beneath the endlessly…
DIY 3.5/5 Inexhaustible, experimental sound that can lead you anywhere and everywhere all at once.
Clash 8/10 Although just seven songs long, the third album from San Francisco psychedelic rockers Wooden Shjips is a remarkably dense, intense affair.
The Guardian 4/5 Wooden Shjips' marriage of garage-band R&B to acid-fried psychedelia is utterly single-minded – and rather thrilling, writes <strong>Michael Hann</strong>