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You couldn't draw up a better alignment for the roll-out of Tim Woods's sophomore project, StrangerStrains. The Houston artist's October treat comes in the same week as Netflix's Stranger Things, a direct inspiration/homage, and his Born Day. And the music produced only makes it better.
The 9-track tape shares in common the healthy pool of producers like its big brother Pushing Daisies, e.g. Baker Yung, Izzar Thomas, NSDbeats and Arza Arzito, but differs with a sole feature from Lita Styles on OTW and a production space wrapped in sedation. There is a heavier presence of downbeat drums, although still plentiful of knock like on the ground-quaking Goin Up or the eerie, romantically zooted-sounding closing cut Holidaze.
Tim Woods spends the majority of the time adding new vocal tones to his repertoire to enhance his overall spooky melodies and clever macho bars weaved throughout. Tracks like Evergreen, my favorite joint, take these hardwood soul drums and kazoo strings to sound like a 70's oak record table. Woods' flow is at an organic burn with a slight head-bop rhythm birthed straight from the drum pocket. And the spooky harmonizing transition creeps into the aforementioned enhanced melodies.
StrangerStrains sounds like one celebration in a jumbo hotbox holding comatose, paranoid, yet affectionate blowhard energy. I guarantee y'all are gonna enjoy this one. Tim's painfully catchy Nightshift alone is worth it.
Listen to StrangerStrains below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
You couldn't draw up a better alignment for the roll-out of Tim Woods's sophomore project, StrangerStrains. The Houston artist's October treat comes in the same week as Netflix's Stranger Things, a direct inspiration/homage, and his Born Day. And the music produced only makes it better.
The 9-track tape shares in common the healthy pool of producers like its big brother Pushing Daisies, e.g. Baker Yung, Izzar Thomas, NSDbeats and Arza Arzito, but differs with a sole feature from Lita Styles on OTW and a production space wrapped in sedation. There is a heavier presence of downbeat drums, although still plentiful of knock like on the ground-quaking Goin Up or the eerie, romantically zooted-sounding closing cut Holidaze.
Tim Woods spends the majority of the time adding new vocal tones to his repertoire to enhance his overall spooky melodies and clever macho bars weaved throughout. Tracks like Evergreen, my favorite joint, take these hardwood soul drums and kazoo strings to sound like a 70's oak record table. Woods' flow is at an organic burn with a slight head-bop rhythm birthed straight from the drum pocket. And the spooky harmonizing transition creeps into the aforementioned enhanced melodies.
StrangerStrains sounds like one celebration in a jumbo hotbox holding comatose, paranoid, yet affectionate blowhard energy. I guarantee y'all are gonna enjoy this one. Tim's painfully catchy Nightshift alone is worth it.
Listen to StrangerStrains below.
Lead Photo Cred: soundcloud.com
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