WOODS Stream Brand New track, 'Cali in a Cup'

WOODS have streamed the first track, the fried out, laid back 'Cali In a Cup' taken from their September 17th released full length, Bend Beyond on Woodsist Records. 

The track will be released as a limited 7″ on 13th August and will be  available on their West Coast tour with Peaking Lights, culminating in the Woodsist Festival in Big Sur, California on Aug 4th and 5th.

LISTEN: 'Cali In A Cup'

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WOODS ON TOUR

03-Aug	CA	San Francisco	Great American Music Hall*
04-Aug	CA	Big Sur	Woodsist Festival @ Henry Miller Library
07-Aug	CA	Santa Barbara	Velvet Jones*
08-Aug	CA	Los Angeles	Echo*
09-Aug	CA	San Diego	Soda Bar
01-Sep	UK	Brighton	The Blind Tiger
02-Sep	UK	Dorset	End of the Road
03-Sep	UK	London	Cargo
04-Sep	UK	Leeds	Brudenell Social Club
05-Sep	UK	Bristol	The Fleece

* with Peaking Lights

"For their seventh album, Bend Beyond, Woods got dark. It’s not that they weren’t dark before—when you really get in there and listen, Jeremy Earl is singing about some heavy stuff, but it’s hidden under his gorgeous falsetto and sometimes obtuse lyrics. On Bend Beyond, though, Earl and company fully embrace that darkness.

Album opener “Bend Beyond,” has long been a jammy live staple, but here it’s compact and tight with a stuttered guitar line and a world-ending collision of instruments. Meanwhile “Is It Honest” jangles along happily until you notice Earl is in a more destructive zone than the bright music initially suggests, singing It’s so f***ing hard to see as both a form of comfort and an act of despair.

Instrumentally, Bend Beyond is certainly the most full Woods record yet, guitars weave and bubble across peppy drumming, but lyrically Earl is at his most direct and spare. While previous albums sounded like they went directly from Earl’s brain to tape with minimal outside interference, Bend Beyond is lush and full-bodied, the work of a band in perfect, heavy harmony.