Songs of Shame

by Woods

Songs of Shame cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 14 April 2009
  • Label: Woodsist
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 35:35
  • Community rating: 3.42/5 from 4 ratings

Artists on this release: Pete Nolan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Operating as a defining release for the late-2000s Brooklyn DIY scene, this album blends incredibly catchy, falsetto-driven acoustic pop with extended, screeching tape-delay noise jams. The production is aggressively lo-fi, capturing a loose, sun-baked campfire atmosphere that occasionally dissolves into pure feedback. It established the group as the premier torchbearers for the modern freak-folk and cassette-underground movement.

Genres

Descriptors: Lo Fi, lo-fi, folk, acoustic, male-vocals, unpolished, melodic

Tracklist

  1. To Clean (2:16)
  2. The Hold (2:42)
  3. The Number (2:52)
  4. September With Pete (9:39)
  5. Down This Road (1:36)
  6. Military Madness (3:11)
  7. Born to Lose (1:59)
  8. Echo Lake (2:03)
  9. Rain On (3:27)
  10. Gypsy Hand (4:24)
  11. Where and What are You? (1:20)

Credits

  • Woods - primary artist, written-by
  • G. Lucas Crane - tape
  • Pete Nolan - guitar
  • Graham Nash - written-by

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