Wood-Land – Stone Circle
After an Installation series debut, a remix album and over a year’s worth of recording, Wood-Land has returned from the deep woods of Pennsylvania with Stone Circle. Those familiar with Wood-Land’s work know to expect some deep earthy lo-fi stuff, and on this point, Stone Circle delivers. Sounding like some worn cassette dug up from under an oak tree, the 20 songs on Stone Circle paint a vivid picture of slowly eroded gospel hymns reduced to warped loops and textural embellishments. Folk music recorded on tree bark, confederate ghosts inhabiting a transistor radio, dream-state chants echoing down a dark wooden hall covered in leaves. Wood-Land has never sounded more surreal and overgrown. Perfect decaying Autumn music, limited to 100 copies and gracefully mastered by Greg Davis with artwork by PAN.