The other day I was listening to KEXP at work and I heard really cool tune coming from the speakers. It sounded like an acoustic TV On The Radio song. There was no ‘song playing’ listed on their site so I quickly pulled up shazam on my iphone which told me that it was the song called ‘Graves’ off the recently released EP ‘Valley of the Headless Men’ by a band called Ravenna Woods. It was such a uniquely cool song that I needed to find out more about this band. A quick google search told me the following:
-They are three piece acoustic/folk band from Seattle.
-Their debut album, ‘Demons & Lakes’ was released early 2010 and was voted one of the top 90 albums by KEXP listeners.
-Seattle Magazine voted them as the “best new acoustic band of 2010”
-Seattlesubsonic.com says: “If you were in a cult and you wanted a soundtrack for your seaside bonfire and kool-aid party, I would recommend you hire Ravenna Woods. Only don’t pay them in punch, we are going to want them around for a while”
The Seattlesubsonic.com quote had me really intrigued so I downloaded their critically praised debut album and have been listening to it non-stop since. Their sound is dark, trippy, somewhat haunting yet fresh and weird at the same time. Its as if TV on the Radio set out to make an all acoustic album that sounded like Fleet Foxes if they had been listening to a lot of Yeasayer. Go ahead. Drink the kool-aid. Give a listen/watch:
Graves:
A Devil's Coming:
Ghosts:
