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Contact - EP

Wooden Shjips

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Hoisting sonic sails and venturing into the galaxy, San Francisco space-rockers Wooden Shjips kick off this lengthy two-song EP with a cosmic cover of the 1968 Serge Gainsbourg song “Contact” (which was then sung in French by Brigitte Bardot). In typical Wooden Shjips fashion, this version is five minutes longer than the original. It begins sounding a bit like an unearthed Spacemen 3 recording, with waves of vintage guitar distortion undulating over an old psychedelic organ as the rhythm section keeps a heartbeat pace. Under this, Ripley Johnson whisper-sings some barely intelligible lyrics (also in French), mixed low to not compete with the other instruments. The following “I Hear Vibrations” first surfaced on the b-side to Wooden Shjips’ seven-inch single for their 2010 U.K. tour. This is a different recording of that song: a bit slower and noticeably heavier. Spanning nearly eight and a half minutes, it’s built on a krautrock (by way of Hawkwind) mantra of pulsing bass, warbling organ drones, lysergic wah-wah guitar, and Johnson’s minimal singing enveloped in oceans of reverb.

Customer Reviews

Song titles are...

...reversed. Contact is the second song-a Bridget Bardot cover and a really great version as well.

Is that shoegaze?

Well turn it up! Firing one up wouldn't hurt either; or you could just stick to pharmaceuticals. A nice ride either way.

Biography

Formed: 2003 in San Francisco, CA

Genre: Alternative

Years Active: '00s, '10s

San Francisco's enigmatically named Wooden Shjips play a minimal, droning brand of garage-styled psychedelia with a noticeable '60s Krautrock influence. The band's vocals slip beneath waves of throbbing minimal rhythms, while fuzztone guitar and shrieking organs jump to the foreground. When bandleader Ripley Johnson assembled the group in 2003, he wasn't interested in playing gigs or becoming famous; rather, his original intention was to find a group of non-musicians for the purposes of creating...
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  • $1.98
  • Genres: Rock, Music, Psychedelic
  • Released: Mar 01, 2010

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