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Hush Arbors- S/T
Keith Wood, along with constant foil Leon Dufficy, is Hush Arbors, and while his self-titled Ecstatic Peace! debut is not his first album by any means – he’s been at this almost ten years - it does provide the perfect introductory point to Hush Arbor’s distinctive take on psych folk. Combining the pensive songwriting of John Phillips circa Wolfking, the plaintive honesty of Neil Young, and the fishtank-gazing cacophony of Six Organs of Admittance (Wood is a frequent collaborator), Wood writes classic-sounding songs that sound readymade for AM radio, circa 1968.
These songs would play as comfortably over a scene from The Wonder Years as they would piping from a noxious chillout tent at Terrastock. There are songs here that resonate with the minor key melancholy of Bert Jansch or perhaps even Mark Kozelek, while others hint at a Wire subscriber’s Siamese Dream, all propulsive rhythms and lysergic electric guitar.
Some albums are ‘growers’ – not this one. While repeated listens reveal more and more details, as good albums should, this is also an album that commands immediate attention. Try to put it on in a crowded room – just try. You’ll have a ‘High-Fidelity-Beta-Band’ scene on your hands within two minutes. Ecstatic Peace OCT 21
===Discography===
hush arbors
*''If There Be Spirits Let Them Come'' [3"cdr](foxglove)
*''Hush Arbors'' [cd] (Digitalis)
*''Since We Have Fallen'' [cdr] (Digitalis)
*''Under Bent Limb Trees'' [cd](Digitalis)
*''Death Calligraphy'' [3"cdr](mymwly)
*''Cleaning The Bone'' [3"cdr](267 lattajjaa)
*''Since We Have Fallen'' [LP] Reissue (Harvest Recordings)
*''Landscape of Bone''[cd] (Three Lobed Recordings, 2006)
*'' live at the pilot light'' [cdr] (self released)
*'' live in sheffield '' [cdr] (blackest rainbow records)
*''Under Bent limb tree's '' [2 cd expanded reissue](digitalis 2007)
* '' row life '' [tape] (fuckittapes)
*" reissue of "landscape of bone" [cdr] tour only (lmtd. 50 copies wolfking 2008)
* "reissue "live in sheffield + death calligraphy" [cdr] tour only (wolfking)
splits
*''hush arbors/north sea/terracid'' [cdr] (Barl Fire)
*''hush arbors/north sea'' [cdr] (foxglove)
*''hush arbors/wooden wand/satya sai'' [cdr] (self released)
*'' split 7" with voice of the seven woods '' (great pop supplement)
*'' split 7" with wooden wand "swappin' " '' (great pop supplement)
*" split 7" with jerusalem and the starbaskets " (great pop supplement)
related
*''family lsd - last of the red hot lovers'' [cdr] (foxglove)
*''golden oaks - autumn testament''[cdr] (Digitalis)
*''golden oaks - paradise '' [cdr] (Barl Fire)
*'' golden oaks/botos split '' [cdr] (time-lag)
*'' hildegard - acte gratuit '' [cdr] (feed & seed redords)
*'' wooden wand - horus of the horizon '' [cd] (Three Lobed)
*"wooden wand - horus of the horizon [10"lp] (great pop supplement)
*'' six organs of admittance - days of blood ''[cdr] (self released)
*'' sunburned hand of the man - when the shit hits the jazz '' [cdr] (manhand)
*'' zodiacs - come & gone '' [cdr] (23 productions)
*''zodiacs - gone '' [cd] (holy mountain)
*'' sunburned hand of the man - double puberty '' [cdr] (manhand)
*'' sunburned hand of the man- zZz '' [cd] (ecstatic peace)
*'' sunburned hand of the man - fire escape '' (smalltown supersound)
*"six organs of admittance-"days of blood" [lp] (ecstatic yod)
upcoming
* hush arbors - "untitled" (ecstatic peace)
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