As someone who goes out of her way to live in the past, I am always intrigued by bands whose members could not possibly have been alive when the groups whose songs their music reminds me of were cranking out the chart-topping hits. That means either I’m so out of touch with what’s popular that I miss all the contemporary references (likely), or the guys in Woods are raiding their (Grand)parents record collections (also possible). Either way, all that matters to me is that I can connect a song like “New Light” with The Byrds’ “My Back Pages” and any Beatles or Rolling Stones song from the mid-sixties that threw a little then-revolutionary backwards-recorded guitar into the mix. Because that is how I roll.
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