WOODEN SHJIPS - Back To Land LP (colour vinyl) punk blues " – George Grella in

" – George Grella in The Brooklyn Rail"You ever listen to Bill Walton do a basketball game and suddenly he smokes so much weed that he takes a left turn

It’s time for me to put my money where my mouth is and take it out there

Unyielding and grandiose black metal with echoes of classic heavy metal

and the music straddles several decades of serious minimalist fun with nods to Gang Of Four

WOODEN SHJIPS - Back To Land LP (colour vinyl) punk blues " – George Grella inLimited edition copper colour vinyl. Housed in die cut sleeve. Highly recommended. Given the right atmosphere, you might get vocalist and founder Ripley Johnson to admit that back in 2003 he was still on the hippy trail, not in search of fortune or fame, but for musicians who could share his vision for crafting acid laced tunes filled with distortion in much the same vein as The Velvet Underground had done though replacing the speed induced edges with