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Royal Headache - self-titled (album)

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Album Review

Woods
Bend Beyond Woodsist Records

Article written by Ged M - Oct 7, 2012

Largely the work of Jeremy Earl and multi-instrumentalist Jarvis Taveniere, Woods’ seventh long-player is deeper, darker and better than anything they’ve previously released; possibly better than anything released this year.

In some ways it resembles previous Woods releases, and the Earl falsetto is the same (a possible dealbreaker for some people) but the shortness of the record (32 minutes, 12 tracks) seems to have intensified the sound and the mood. It includes a pastoral, Neil Young-style, psych-pop epic (‘Bend Beyond’), some Nugget-y garage-rock (‘Find Them Empty’) and the catchy country-pop single ‘Cali In A Cup’, where Matt Valentine’s harmonica falls just the right side of “folksy”. Valentine also contributes brilliant moaning lap steel guitar on the eerie death-folk of ‘It Ain’t Easy’.

There’s a strong sense of melody, particularly the spectacular choruses of folk-poppy ‘Back To The Stone’, and plenty of guitars, although they’re never indulgent. ‘Size Meets The Sound’ has an amazing throbbing riff that dissolves into a kaleidoscope of coruscating feedback fractals and fuzzy psychedelia but it’s still incredibly contained within a three-minute pop song. The band worked harder on the songs for Bend Beyond than on previous albums, which had freer songwriting styles, and it shows; the new record has a consistency of quality and a well-produced lo-fi sound that gives full effect to the bright melodies. Previous records have had great individual songs but this has an album full.

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