At the Bowery Ballroom on a Friday in May, Woods had their first show in New York in a year ahead of a long string of dates to promote their new album With Light and With Love. Songs from this new album, “a radical departure for the band — a more refined and pop-oriented record” (nyctaper), made up the bulk of the show though the set included a cover Pink Floyd too. Woods were joined by openers Quilt, whose free spirited sound flowed tranquilly through the crowd in advance of the psychedelic headliners.
When I went up to the balcony, I found out Woods’ interesting backdrop wasn’t a video projection. Two men were messing around with gel and liquid overlays on top of old school screen projectors. The homemade effects fit excellently into the band’s organic set, melding experimental sounds with their melodies. As we described it earlier, their new album is “a complicated, rewarding balance between the grip of the past and the possibility of, if not the future, than at least the now.” It is a rewarding listen and their show is exciting to see, so check out their tour dates below.
Plus you can stream Woods’ new single “Tambourine Light” and download the full show from Bowery Ballroom over at nyctaper’s site (thank him for the recording while you are there and then let Quilt know they should let him release their set!).
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Woods Tourdates:
06-13 Brooklyn, NY – Northside Festival
07-27 Chicago, IL – Wicker Park Festival
07-28 Minneapolis, MN – 7th Street Entry
07-31 Seattle, WA – Neumos
08-01 Vancouver, British Columbia – The Fox Cabaret
08-02 Portland, OR – Pickathon
08-03 Portland, OR – Pickathon
08-05 Big Sur, CA – Woodsist Festival Big Sur
08-10 San Francisco, CA – Outside Lands
08-12 Visalia, CA – Cellar Door
08-14 San Diego, CA – Casbah
08-16 Pioneertown, CA – Woodsist Festival Pioneertown
08-17 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
08-19 Marfa, TX – El Cosmico
08-20 Austin, TX – Holy Mountain
08-21 Baton Rouge, LA – Spanish Moon
08-22 Chattanooga, TN – Sluggo’s
08-23 Chapel Hill, NC – Local 506
08-30 Birmingham, England – Moseley Folk Festival
08-31 Dorset, England – End Of The Road
09-02 London, England – Dingwalls
09-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
09-04 Groningen, Netherlands – Vera
09-05 Vlieland, Netherlands – Into the Great Wide Open
09-06 Brussels, Belgium – Atelier 210
09-07 Strasbourg, France – Troc Café
09-08 Zurich, Switzerland – El Lokal
09-09 Lausanne, Switzerland – Le Romandie
09-10 Biarritz, France – L’atabal
09-12 Valada, Portugal – Reverence Festival
09-13 Madrid, Spain – El Sol
09-14 Barcelona, Spain – Caprichos de Apolo
09-15 Toulouse, France – La Dynamo
09-16 Paris, France – Eldorado Festival
09-18 Bergen, Norway – Phonofestivalen
09-21 Tilburg, Netherlands – Incubate
09-22 Bristol, England – The Lantern
09-23 Dublin, Ireland – Button Factory
09-24 Belfast, Ireland – McHughs
09-25 Glasgow, Scotland – Broadcast
09-26 Newcastle, England – Think Thank
09-27 Liverpool, England – Liverpool Psych Fest
10-24 New York, NY – NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
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