Wooden Shjips – Home (2011)

The Neil Young / Crazy Horse influence is most apparent on ‘Home’, the album’s centrepiece. It’s the Shjips’ most instantly thrilling song to date, the choogling bar band momentum of its gnarled ascending riff constantly undermined by the hazy, echoing uncertainty of Ripley’s vocals, and the way each verse collapses into a black hole of drug-damaged entropy, close to one of Lee Renaldo’s minor key Sonic Youth songs like ‘Mote’, before kicking into yet another sky-scraping wah-fuzz solo. [Source]




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