Woods (band)

Not to be confused with The Woods Band.

Woods is an American folk rock band from Brooklyn, New York,^[2] formed in 2005.^[3] The band consists of Jeremy Earl (vocals, guitar), Jarvis Taveniere (various instruments, production), Aaron Neveu (drums), Chuck Van Dyck (bass), and Kyle Forester (keyboards, sax). The band's former bassist, Kevin Morby, left the band in 2013.^[4]

Woods
Woods performing at Flow Festival in Helsinki, Finland in 2013
Background information
Origin	Brooklyn, New York, United States
Genres	Folk rock indie folk[1] psychedelic folk freak folk neo-psychedelia jam band
Years active	2005–present
Labels	Woodsist, Shrimper
Members	Jeremy Earl Jarvis Taveniere Aaron Neveu Chuck Van Dyck Kyle Forester
Past members	John Andrews Kevin Morby G. Lucas Crane Christian DeRoeck
Website	woodsist.com/woods

Woods have released 11 albums, the latest being Perennial. Pitchfork Media reviewed one of their previous albums, Songs of Shame, giving the band its "Best New Music" designation and describing the sound as "a distinctive blend of spooky campfire folk, lo-fi rock, homemade tape collages, and other noisy interludes, all anchored by deceptively sturdy melodies."^[5]

Singer-guitarist and founder Jeremy Earl also runs the Brooklyn label Woodsist, for whom the band releases their work.

Early history

Prior to their initial output as Woods, founding members Jeremy Earl and Jarvis Taveniere, along with former member Christian DeRoeck, performed together in the band Meneguar,^[6] in which Taveniere sang and played guitar, and Earl played drums. Meneguar released three albums, beginning with I Was Born At Night (released on cassette in 2004 by Fuck It Tapes, on LP the following year by Magic Bullet Records, and reissued in 2006 by Troubleman Unlimited).^[7] The group released two subsequent albums, Strangers in Our House (Release the Bats Records, 2007) and The In Hour (Woodsist, 2008) prior to shifting their focus full-time to recording and performing as Woods.

Line-up

Current

• Jeremy Earl – vocals, composer, guitar, twelve-string guitar, producer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drums, percussion, engineer, bass guitar (2005–present)
• Jarvis Taveniere – guitar, twelve-string guitar, composer, bass, producer, engineer, mixing (2005–present)
• John Andrews – piano, organ, musical saw
• Chuck Van Dyck – bass guitar (2014–present)
• Kyle Forester – keyboards, saxophone (2016–present)

Former

• Kevin Morby – bass guitar (2009–2013)
• Aaron Neveu – drums, acoustic guitar, bass (2013–2020)
• G. Lucas Crane – tapes, keyboards
• Christian DeRoeck – vocals, guitar

Gallery

• 
  Jeremy Earl on electric guitar
• 
  Jarvis Taveniere on twelve-string electric guitar
• 
  Kevin Morby (formerly) on bass guitar

Discography

Studio albums

• At Rear House (2007)
• How to Survive In + In The Woods (2007)
• Woods Family Creeps (2008)
• Songs of Shame (2009)
• At Echo Lake (2010)
• Sun and Shade (2011)
• Bend Beyond (2012)
• With Light and with Love (2014)
• City Sun Eater in the River of Light (2016)
• Love Is Love (2017)
• Strange to Explain (2020)
• Perennial (2023)

Compilations

• Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King) (2020)

Singles & EPs

• "To Clean" b/w "Rain On" (Live On WVKR" (7″ Half Machine, 2009) U.K. Issue^[8]
• "Sunlit" b/w "The Dark" (7" Captured Tracks, 2009)
• "I Was Gone" - EP (12" Woodsist, 2010)
• "Find Them Empty" b/w "Be There" (7" Woodsist, 2011)
• Summer Tour 2011 Tour Split with Kurt Vile (33 RPM 7" Woodsist, 2011)^[9]
• "Cali in a Cup" b/w "Give Your Light Off" (7" Woodsist, 2012)
• "Be All Be Easy" b/w "God's Children" (7" Woodsist, 2013)
• "Tambourine Light" b/w "Tomorrow's Only Yesterday" (7" Woodsist, 2014)

References

1. Kreps, Daniel; Weingarten, Christopher; Doyle, Patrick (15 June 2015). "50 Best Things We Saw at Bonnaroo 2015". Rolling Stone.
2. Charlesworth, Jenny (August 27, 2009). "Woods offers a taste of the Brooklyn sound", The Georgia Straight. Retrieved on 2009-09-03.
3. Sabbath, Chris (August 27, 2009). "Woods: Reworked quartet's 'Songs of Shame'", San Francisco Chronicle, p. F4. Retrieved on 2009-09-03.
4. "Kevin Morby's Midwest Heart - VICE". Noisey.vice.com. 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2020-05-22.
5. Murphy, Matthew (April 24, 2009). "Woods: Songs of Shame", Pitchfork Media. Retrieved on 2009-09-03.
6. "Woods and Real Estate : A Scene of Their Own : Articles : Relix". 23 March 2015. Archived from the original on 2015-03-23. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
7. "Meneguar". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
8. ""Rain on Radio" | Forkcast Archive". Pitchfork. 2009-07-06. Retrieved 2012-10-03.
9. Smith, Barnaby (2011-07-28). ""Woods and Kurt Vile Release Split 7"". Music Feeds. Retrieved 2018-12-16. Tracklist: A1. Woods, “Skull”; A2. Woods, “Cold Blue”; B1. Kurt Vile, “Commercial Reject”; B2. Kurt Vile, “In/Out Blues”; B3. Kurt Vile, “Water Fingers”

External links

• Official website