Wooden Shjips’ decision to remix “Dreaming of Another World,” is either attributable to a late April Fool’s gag, or someone at Rough Trade got slipped some orange sunshine and hallucinated the commercial potential of a pulverizing remix from the current kings of psychedelic drone. Either way, I’ve long suspected that Wooden Shjips occasionally smirk behind their sorcerer beards. I caught Ripley Johnson rocking out to Dam-Funk during SXSW. He knows how to get down and there is only so much Suicide that you can bump before you start stabbing people. Though their hypno-rock skews more dirge than danceable, Wooden Shjips have always wielded a sinister and subtle groove. Wait till the two minute mark when the squalls of blistering guitar catch a trade wind, transforming what ought to be a sub-Killers cut tailor-made for Urban Outfitters soundtracks, into a weird woolly jam built for maniacs not mall rats.
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MP3: Wooden Shjips – “Dreaming of Another World (Wooden Shjips Remix)
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88 days in my veins » Stream: Mystery Jets: Dreaming Of Another World (Lindstrom and Prins Thomas mix) says:
July 25, 2010 at 2:58 am (UTC -7)
[...] at Rough Trade who managed to combine a right pair of testicles (or not, it could be a girl) to ask Wooden Shjips to mix up ‘Dreaming Of Another World’ but also to snare disco gods Lindstrom and Prins for the next remix? Envious i really am. Using [...]