Woodstar - 'Time To Bleed' (Regal)
4/5
By: Toby L
This is one of the most affectingly beautiful EP's rockfeedback has had an opportunity to chance upon in the last six months.
Although the accompanying press-release claims that the record fails to catch the band at their more 'rough punkish edge', what you're instead left with is still a beguiling set of recordings that suggests a new band with potentially an astronomical impact. However, you'll be mistaken for not feeling this way at first, for the songs themselves - five polished and highly-appetising nuggets of both lo-fi pop and moving Grandaddy-esque guitar wizardry and sonic instrumentation - may well take some time to grow on you.
The opening drenches of melody from title-track 'Time To Bleed' are a fitting, atmospheric pre-cursor to a gradually improving song-selection. For sure, the following 'Sorry Skin' and gorgeous Elbow-like 'These Scars' are the most tantalising mellow pieces of alt-music since The Beta Band first showed their faces on the scene... Oh, wait, they're label-mates? That figures.
Essentially, this is worth buying just for a test of yourself: if you don't feel slightly better after hearing this music once its 18-minutes passes you by, then you're officially not alive anymore... Besides, the band must be slightly confident in themselves - for they do sing on final-track, 'World War In A Bed', 'I'm quite prepared to lose you'. But, if you've got any sense, you won't let such a tragic action occur.
Artists in this article: Woodstar
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