Hey we got some copies of the Wooden Shjips ltd edition tour 7" 'Vampire Blues/ I Hear The Vibrations'. You may recall how quickly we sold out of their previous tour split with The Heads so you best be getting yer skates on. 'Vampire Blues' is a cover of a Neil Young tune from his 1974 'On The Beach' album. I have to confess to never having heard the original but their version is a real grower. The guitar is suitably fuzzy, the percussion fairly simple and the overall atmosphere a druggy, lazy, stoned haze. A good old fashioned blues rock and roll tune with lovely warm analogue sound. The flipside 'I Hear The Vibrations' has a brilliant repetitive bassline that's really prominent in the mix while layers of psychedelic guitar swirl around. This has their authentic 70's sound but thankfully manages to avoid becoming too proggy and adopting some of the more embarrassing cliche's associated with 70's rock. Again I love the overall sound here presumably all played and recorded with old kit. Upon second spin I can declare I thoroughly approve.
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What their label says...
Limited tour only 7” a-side is a cracking romp through Neil Young’s “Vampire Blues”…giving it prime Shjips treatment, the band at the most accessible…on the flip is a new original, that displays their almost perfect melding of late UK 80s fuzzwah (Loop, etc) and late 60s / early 70s SF psychout… If this is a taste of the next album, looks like album of the year 2009 pretty much wrapped up.
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Contact Wooden Shjips 12" (vinyl), £19.99 Sorry - sold out.
