Strange To Explain

Woods - Strange To Explain
Critic Score
Based on 14 reviews
2020 Ratings: #520 / 871
User Score
Based on 124 ratings
2020 Rank: #512
Liked by 9 people
May 22, 2020 / Release Date
LP / Format
Woodsist / Label
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CRITIC REVIEWS

90
AllMusic

Without losing the unfiltered emotion that makes them so compelling, Woods reach a new maturity with these songs. Fifteen years into a tirelessly curious evolution, the band sound more comfortable and surefooted here than ever before.

80
Sputnikmusic

Strange to Explain is warm, weightless, and free-spirited. It doesn’t need to be compartmentalized – it’s gorgeous, and that’s enough.

72
Beats Per Minute

While largely things haven’t improved in the world, Woods, thankfully, have. Strange to Explain is a luscious return to form. Flawed, but luscious.

70
FLOOD Magazine

Strange to Explain is another fine album from Woods, and one which opens the door for more growth from the band.

70
Gigwise

It’s the kaleidoscopic soundtrack to a summer romance, the beating heart of a John Green novel, the catharsis of a quirky British indie film about two misfits finding each other on the pursuit of enlightenment.

50
Exclaim!

Instead of people in a room playing guitars and drums and singing into real space, here you can almost feel the sliders sliding and new stereo tracks clicking open on the computer.

dearsongs
NR

Its woods doing what woods does. Continuous cooking grooves, played by some of the best musicians in the indie game. 15 years down and I'm still tuned in. Hope I can see these guys live again in 2021.

Love the album art and the video animations, curiosity of John Andrews (check out his band too).

Rob_StA
77

Top Tracks:
Next to You and the Sea
Where Do You Go When You Dream?
Strange to Explain

TheBoredCritic
70

Woods remain inexhaustible, but time has passed for them too. On their twelfth album, Brooklynites reap the fruits of their fifteen-year career, fearlessly moving between their more experimental instincts and their continual reinterpretation of folk. Recorded months before collaborating with David Berman on that tragic and unforgettable Purple Mountains, Strange to Explain is an album where we expected to find pain, but we ended up finding that complicated feeling that life goes on.

Rob_StA
77

Top Tracks:
Next to You and the Sea
Where Do You Go When You Dream?
Strange to Explain

TheBoredCritic
70

Woods remain inexhaustible, but time has passed for them too. On their twelfth album, Brooklynites reap the fruits of their fifteen-year career, fearlessly moving between their more experimental instincts and their continual reinterpretation of folk. Recorded months before collaborating with David Berman on that tragic and unforgettable Purple Mountains, Strange to Explain is an album where we expected to find pain, but we ended up finding that complicated feeling that life goes on.

Juancete
45

For being psychedelic pop, it sure is kinda flat.

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Added on: March 2, 2020