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Reviews > CDs

Published: 2010/08/12

by Jesse Jarnow

Woods: At Echo Lake

Woodsist

On its fifth album, At Echo Lake, the ragtag Brooklyn psychniks Woods has finally discovered folk-pop hooks, as if they were baubles dug up at a thrift store amid old television remotes and bedazzled jeans. But they scored big. The music is still slathered in brilliantly warbling cassettes ( G. Lucas Crane on “Suffering Season”), lo-fi vibe enhancers ( Matt Valentine’s banjo-sitar on “Time Fading Lines,” fuzzy bells on “I Was Gone”) and, everywhere, leader Jeremy Earl’s helium-sucked sincerity. Here, though, Earl couples memorable turns with assertive wisdom and a brave concision. The 11 songs don’t break half-an-hour—“From the Horn” is the album’s requisite sweet guitar jam, but it’s barely two minutes long. All killer, no filler—just miniature vessels to elsewhere.

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