Psych-rock outfits like Wooden Shjips are supposed to specialize in mind-shredding head music for stationary stoners. The San Francisco’s band latest album, West, has plenty of that—dig the self-explanatory opener “Black Smoke Rise”—but it also speaks surprisingly well to the hips. Buried beneath the endlessly repeating guitar riffs and Ripley Johnson’s drugged-up drawl are deep basslines, soulful organ washes, and the nonstop rattle of a booty-tickling tambourine. That’s right: Wooden Shjips is a funky bar band dressed in tattered garage-punk clothing. The greasy, hopped-up grooves of “Lazy Bones” and “Looking Out” aren’t dramatic departures ...
- 9/20/2011
- avclub.com
With 2010 only a week over, it already feels like best-of and top-ten lists have been pouring in for months, and we’re already tired of them: the ranking, the exclusions (and inclusions), the rules and the qualifiers. Some people got to see films at festivals, others only catch movies on video; and the ability for us, or any publication, to come up with a system to fairly determine who saw what when and what they thought was the best seems an impossible feat. That doesn’t stop most people from doing it, but we liked the fantasy double features we did last year and for our 3rd Writers Poll we thought we'd do it again.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
I asked our contributors to pick a single new film they saw in 2010—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they saw in 2010 to create a unique double feature.
- 1/10/2011
- MUBI
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