Woo - When the Past Arrives (2014)

A quarter century since their classic 'It's Cosy Inside', the brothers Ives have raided their vaults to piece together their super charming new album 'When The Past Arrives'. All 16 unreleased songs stem from the same era as their cherished early work, even dating far back as 1976, and have been sensitively remastered from original tapes. "With comparisons to Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Animal Collective, Cluster, and Brian Eno, Woo’s profile in the world of atemporal music has been growing for years. For the lucky few who know, like Fela, or Neu!, Woo has their own instantly recognizable vibrantly pulsing sound, a quiet sound of comfort and contentment. “If we got something good happening it would continue into the early hours. I remember one morning waking up still sitting at my keyboard, the phone as my pillow. The woman below us would thump the ceiling with a broom handle when she got sick of the noise, so that influenced a lot of what we could do and how we would work: drums became triangles, clarinets were played real breathy, guitars were plucked, not strummed. Even hitting the keyboard keys were not to be struck too hard. This new album is mainly a result of these late night recordings. Soft melodic compositions created on either piano or guitar, then multi tracked with improvisations and harmonic patterns.” - Clive. ‘When The Past Arrives’ is a collection of deceptively airy jams, addictive, crystalline. Uncut called ‘It’s Cosy Inside’ “the epitome of domestic bliss,” and Pitchfork observed that the album “stakes itself on the premise that the most cosmic and revelatory experiences you’ll ever have will all happen between your house and the backyard.” As if to answer, the Ives brothers selected a vocal track to complete the album, which asks, “How far out, will you go today up the garden path?”

Tracklist:

01. First Night Nerves
02. Satya
03. 1001 Decisions
04. Life So Far
05. Om Shanti
06. Amala’s Love
07. Teddy Bears
08. H20
09. Free Will
10. Distant Consequences
11. Acting Like a Lover
12. Glip Glop
13. The Garden Path
14. Ruby