Hush Arbors / S/t

Ecstatic Peace

formats available

CD
$10.50
E # 100 H
602517816107
Street Date:
October 20th, 2008
Ship Date:
October 20th, 2008

“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 lysergic, distinctive take on psych folk. Combining the pensive songwriting of John Phillips circa Wolfking, the plaintive honesty of Neil Young, the fishtank-gazing cacophony of Six Organs of Admittance (Wood is a frequent collaborator), and the restrained whimsy of Bert Jansch, Wood writes classic-sounding songs that sound readymade for the rock canon. The album is housed in a beautiful cover depicting an oversaturated photo of our bed-headed hero, resembling Terry Gilliam's animated collage work for Monty Python. The cover is rife with codes and clues but I'll leave that to you and your magnifying glass.”—James Jackson Toth