Wood-Land - Stone Circle

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4...according to our Business Lady on Thu 22 Oct, 2009.

Wood-land have released a few bits and bobs on the Install label but i'm totally unfamiliar with their work. 'Stone circle' is the duo's first full length release, limited to a super small run of 100 copies. On first listen i reckon it's total winner. Twenty tracks of brooding lo-fi instrumentation that sounds like it was recorded using the very first microphone and tape machine ever made, 'Stone circle' is packed with twisted spaced out jams and ambient post-everything sound collage's. Hauntingly atmospheric whilst maintaining a autumnal charm this is the aural equivalent of finding a bustling community of tiny talking animals (the ones that wear glasses and sit around drinking tea around tiny table, you know the ones) in a damp abandoned forest in the middle of the night. They've got their own mini lanterns and fitted clothes and everything.....the cute little things. Magical, enchanting loops and drones that sounds utterly perfect this time of year. Deserves a bigger print run i say, good stuff.

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After an Installation series debut, a remix album and over a year's worth of recording, Wood-Land has returned from the deep woods of Pennsylvania with Stone Circle. Those familiar with Wood-Land's work know to expect some deep earthy lo-fi stuff, and on this point, Stone Circle delivers. Sounding like some worn cassette dug up from under an oak tree, the 20 songs on Stone Circle paint a vivid picture of slowly eroded gospel hymns reduced to warped loops and textural embellishments. Folk music recorded on tree bark, confederate ghosts inhabiting a transistor radio, dream-state chants echoing down a dark wooden hall covered in leaves. Wood-Land has never sounded more surreal and overgrown. Perfect decaying Autumn music, limited to 100 copies and gracefully mastered by Greg Davis with artwork by PAN.

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