Wooden Shjips - "V." label_Walt Disney Records The music on the record

The music on the record was more diverse than what the band had done on previous releases

The album received the highest critical praise of a hip-hop album released in 2004

who becomes disillusioned with a corrupt society and joins a revolutionary group to assassinate political leaders

while Alan Vega's oversaturated vocals obsess over motorcycle getaways

Wooden Shjips - "V." label_Walt Disney Records The music on the recordWooden Shjips, long time leaders of the contemporary psychedelic movement, expand their sound with V. The quartet of Omar Ahsanuddin, Dusty Jermier, Nash Whalen and Ripley Johnson augment their already rich sound with laid back, classic summer songs. The songs were written during the summer of 2017 by singer and guitarist Ripley Johnson as an antidote to the pervasive anxiety both political and natural. As Ripley tells it, "We had huge forest fires