Wooden Wand & The World War Iv / Wooden Wand & The World War Iv
Album: Wooden Wand & The World War Iv   Collection:General
Artist:Wooden Wand & The World War Iv   Added:Oct 2013
Label:Three Lobed Recordings  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2013-10-17 Pull Date: 2013-12-19
Week Ending: Dec 15 Dec 8 Dec 1 Nov 24 Nov 17 Nov 3 Oct 27 Oct 20
Airplays: 2 2 1 4 4 2 5 2

Recent Airplay
1. Jan 02, 2014: KZSU Top 100 of 2013
Our Father The Monster
4. Dec 07, 2013: late night dryer
Directions To Debbie Harry's House
2. Dec 12, 2013: The Sunset Life
Directions To Debbie Harry's House
5. Dec 05, 2013: The Sunset Life
I Hate The Nightlife
3. Dec 11, 2013: late night dryer (meow after midnight sub)
Someday This Child Will Die
6. Nov 25, 2013: awmeow
Directions To Debbie Harry's House

Album Review
awyeh
Reviewed 2013-10-17
Fully-bearded, wandering, eerie, electric desert psych-folk. I'm not sure if James Jackson Toth aka Wooden Wand does have a full beard, but as is the case with most of his releases, he offers something pretty different from earlier 2013 release Blood Oaths of the New Blues. Still bluesy, but buzzing electric guitars lead the way on every track; very full sound, rhythmic. Fem backing vox on all but 4,7. Repetition is fairly frequent and used well, built on.

RIYL: Magnolia Electric Co., MV & EE, M. Gira, Red House Painters, Giant Sand
All tracks recommended.

1 (6:38) Hazy, plodding; turns into slow guitar jam
2 (6:05) Foot-stomping, slow, bluesy; chilling guitar sounds, ghostly M backing vox
3 (2:59) Floats along on buzzy countrified riffs, lots of "ahhh"s
4 (4:38) Dark, catchy rumbling riffs; desert echoes, rings, and cracks abound. The "single"?
5 (8:50) Slowly drifts in until breaking open at 5:30, goosebump-inducing solo, final 1:30 of cooldown
6 (2:02) Short acoustic interlude, electric hums in background
7 (8:14) Loud, noisy, foreboding. "McDonald's on the moon... Starbucks at the Wailing Wall"

Track Listing
1. Someday This Child Will Die   4. I Hate The Nightlife
2. Directions To Debbie Harry's House   5. Our Father The Monster
3. Complaint Dept.   6. Human Instrument
  7. Mcdonald's On The Moon