Wooden Shjips head back to the continent to tour in support of the Thrill Jockey release Back To Land. It all starts Thursday in Oslo, Norway and rolls on to Stockholm and Gothenburg, with stops in Denmark, Holland, Germany, Italy, Austria, Croatia, Hungary, France, Spain and Portugal. Wooden Shjips will be sailing in the face of the Polar Vortex and taking their explosive sounds all across Europe this Winter.
Check out all the details on gigs and venues at the tour page.
Wooden Shjips are back on tour for a ride up and down the West Coast. The tour starts tonight at the Doug Fir in Portland Oregon before hitting Seattle, Vancouver and multiple dates in Calfornia.
You can check out all the upcoming tour dates on the Tour page here.
In anticipation of the show on Friday Seattle’s 90.3 KEXP has posted video from a studio session that took place back in November of 2013 just prior to Back To Land’s release.
You can read about it here.
http://blog.kexp.org/2014/01/14/live-video-wooden-shjips-2/
KEXP has video of the whole session on YouTube.
In an exclusive, Wooden Shjips new video for Everybody Knows is now streaming on NME.COM
http://www.nme.com/nme-video/wooden-shjips–everybody-knows/2917567076001
Back to Land LP’s & CD’s available now in both the EU and US webshops including the new T-Shirts.
Check it out in the Shop!
Wooden Shjips played a session for VPRO 3voor12 on Sunday ahead of their show in Utrecht.
The video is now up on the VPRP page and you can watch it on YouTube.
Back To Land the fourth record from Wooden Shjips is out today on Thrill Jockey Records and hits the best independent record stores or can be purchased from iTunes and from Thrill Jockey.
Spin Magazine has the lowdown on the new video for the title track for the new album Back To Land directed by the Hylas Film Collective.
Wooden Shjips play tonight in Boston.
http://www.thrilljockey.com/thrill/Wooden-Shjips/
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/back-to-land-deluxe-version/id699310830
DJ Mario Cotto from KCRW in Santa Monica highlights “These Shadows” as his pick for NPR’s Heavy Rotation. Heavy Rotation is a monthly sampler of public radio hosts’ favorite songs. You can listen to all of the DJ’s picks here!
Music Journalist Ben Ratliff reviews Back to Land in the New York Times Playlist this Sunday. You can read the review here!
“Back to Land is also centered and relaxed and open, almost pastoral. It’s music conceived for interior spaces but influenced by open-air ones.” – New York Times
Wooden Shjips open their tour in support of the new record Back To Land tonight at the Empty Bottle in Chicago. They will be sharing the bill with Cave, who support them on other dates in the US.
There will be special Merch exclusive to the shows including a Back To Land Deluxe LP on limited Pink Vinyl, a 7″ single with two non-LP songs and a very limited cassette release of Back To Land. These are available only at the shows!
Check out the rest of the tour dates and be sure to catch the Shjips live!
Wooden Shjips performed live and were interviewed this morning on Chicago Public Radio WBEZ “The Morning Shift.” You can hear the band rip through “These Shadows”, “Ruins”, and a bit of “Other Stars” at the beginning of the segment.
