WOODEN SHJIPS - West LP Singer Songwriter ” are as self-assured as

” are as self-assured as anything the band has done

Singer Elizabeth Downey says she first envisioned the songs as a kind of deathbed confession

turbo-garage jams and the rest of US punk/HC at the time - the band got it across not through violent speed and mania

and their second album recast the band as one of America’s premier postpunk bands

WOODEN SHJIPS - West LP Singer Songwriter ” are as self-assured asOPAQUE ORANGE VINYL. Wooden Shjips, as it is today, started in 2006. The band self released a 10" and 7" that year and started playing shows shortly thereafter. Prior to 2006, Wooden Shjips was an experiment in primitive and minimalist rock. After it imploded, Ripley Johnson, guitar and vocals, assembled the current lineup of Dusty Jermier on bass, Nash Whalen on organ, and Omar Ahsanuddin on drums. West marks the first time the band recorded in a