Woodsman, “Dikembe Mutombo” Mp3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
It must be pretty fun to be an instrumental band. You can just name your songs whatever you feel like and go nuts. Woodsman did that with “Dikembe Mutombo,” which as far as we know has very little to do with basketball or being from the Congo. But that’s okay! Instead it’s a whirlwind of guitars clamped down by constant drumroll. Maybe they’re hoping to soundtrack the next big, dramatic and inspiring sports movie, or maybe they all just got really stoned and inspired by tall dudes. You can grab Woodsman’s new album digitally on Mexican Summer right now.
Download: Woodsman, “Dikembe Mutombo” (via Weekly Tape Deck)
Woodsman, “Sunglass” MP3
- story Sam Hockley-Smith
We were going to post this yesterday, but then we got to Woodsman’s MySpace page and got carried away on a really aimless and somewhat spiritual musical journey. Like, not that there aren’t a million bands who are willing to acid test their way through the recording of an album, and not that we couldn’t walk to one of the few music stores left and find an entire section devoted to 16-minute instrumental jams that we can tell are about ravens and rainbows even if there are no lyrics, but sometimes it’s even more intangible than that. There are bands who don’t want to attach any sort of direction to their music, and then there are bands like Woodsman that temper their wandering. They reach waaaayyyy out there, sure, but they always bring it back in. Background music for when you’re not actually doing anything else but listening.
Download: Woodsman, “Sunglass” (via MBV)
