At Echo Lake will be the fifth Woods full-length. This first sample from Echo Lake stays hypnotic without lulling, due to interplay between the song’s guitars: some flit in and out of the foreground, others stay workmanlike and straightforward. Singer Jeremy Earl keeps his voice high as ever, though his words are obscured in the drone. Their last one was called Songs of Shame, but this song has something a little Saucerful of Secrets about it (Hipgnosis could have designed them an amazing album cover).

• Woods – “I Was Gone” Download

At Echo Lake is out 5/11 via Woodsist.

Tour dates:
03/12 – New York, NY @ Music Hall of Williamsburg ^
03/13 – Montreal, Québec @ Lambi ^
03/14 – Toronto, Ontario @ Horseshoe Tavern ^
03/15 – Chicago, Illinois @ Lincoln Hall ^
03/16 – Lawrence, Kansas @ Jackpot Music Hall ^
03/19 – Austin, TX @ French Legation Museum (SXSW)
03/19 – Austin, TX @ Cheer Up Charlie’s AKA Ms. Bea’s (SXSW)
03/20 – Austin, TX @ Red 7 (SXSW)
03/22 – Nashville, TN @ The End ^
03/23 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop ^
03/24 – Cleveland, OH @ The Spot at Case Western ^
03/25 – Pittsburgh, PA @ University of Pittsburgh ^
03/26 – Haverford, PA @ Haverford College ^
03/27 – Washington DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel ^
03/28 – Durham, NC @ Duke Coffehouse ^
05/13 – New York, NY @ Abrons Art Center (Joshua Light Festival)

^ w/ Real Estate