WOODLANDS have been an item for around a year. Sara and Niklas started jamming together around Saras song-sketches and the band became complete when Marcus booked them for a gig and at the same time offered his bass-playing-services. The three members are all veterans of the swedish indie-scene; Sara Wilson from First Floor Power and Jenny Wilsons band, Niklas Korssell from The Plan and Tutankamon, Marcus Holmberg from 90's legends Komeda. The album was recorded at Tambourine Studios by Per Sunding in five intense days. Peter Morén (Peter, Bjorn & John) about the band:
”For me, listening to WOODLANDS is a physical experience. They are a band that I feel strongly about. I mean really feel - they make me laugh, dance, even cry. And I take every opportunity to shout as loud as I can about how wonderful they are to anyone who will or won’t listen.
Sure, you can tell what their influences are: doses of Yoko Ono, T-Rex, Grateful Dead and Neil Young. And, if we must apply some specific genre, as we always seem to do for lack of some better description, than we could label them with things like stoner-folk, boogie-pop or indie-rock. But for me, it’s something more primordial. It’s a kind of ur-music: nai?ve, but well-crafted, old and wise all at the same time – it’s something rare in our post- post-post-modern world. But all in all, this band isn’t about the things they borrow from the past, they’re more like an old car with a new set of wheels driving wildly fast, but in the right direction.
WOODLANDS debut is hardly some calculated, over-analyzed studio product. The songs always depart from how Niklas, Marcus and Sara sound when they play in their practice space. Then they build and refine with production and arrangement. The sound that the producer Per Sunding has forged at the consoles is soft when it should be, hard and angular in other places, but always simple and natural. The lyrics are simple, but haunting and merge in self-evident symbiosis with Sara’s voice and music. And it’s this combination that at times causes me to well-up when I listen to WOODLANDS. The lyrics express a fear of lost love, both as an adult and a child, and critique of a society that today equates culture with entrepreneurship.”
ByteFM and tape.tv present: WOODLANDS - Live 2013
07.05. Köln - Subway
08.05. Stuttgart - Cafe Galao
09.05. München - Milla
10.05. Hamburg - Knust @ PASS!ON VICTIM
11.05. Wredenhagen - Cafe Scheune
12.05. Berlin - White Trash
Source: Press Release
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