Back To Land

Wooden Shjips return ashore with their fourth album Back To Land via Thrill Jockey Records, bringing with it eight tracks of colorful, fuzzed-out psychedelia that amass to the foursome's most grounded and direct full-length yet. The follow-up to 2011's West is the first Wooden Shjips LP to be conceived outside of San Francisco, as band members Ripley Johnson and Omar Ahsanuddin have moved to Oregon. Committed to tape at Portland's Jackpot Recording Studio by Kendra Lynn and mixed by Larry Crane, Back to Land traffics in earthier tones than its predecessor. That said, Wooden Shjips' latest effort still honors the band's signature grit'n'groove sound — it just does so with crisper, lusher, and more spacious recordings, not to mention the previously unheard addition of acoustic guitar. 1. "Back To Land" 2. "Ruins" 3. "Ghouls" 4. "These Shadows" 5. "In the Roses" 6. "Other Stars" 7. "Servants" 8. "Everybody Knows"