Wooden Shjips: Back To Land

Wooden Shjips

Back To Land

Thrill Jockey/Border

I like that the lines are blurring - further - between Wooden Shjips and Ripley Johnson’s other band, Moon Duo. This, the fourth Wooden Shjips album, is the most Moon Duo-sounding so far, Johnson’s vocals burning down into the song, burying themselves within the smudge of groove.

On Ruins it’s an almost rockab…