Wooden Shjips rise to prominence from the psychedelic underground to the rock and roll overground has been a steady sojourn.

With each consecutive release, the band has found new ways of transforming heady psychedelic rock into minimalist masterpieces, bridging the gap between the woozy freeness of Les Rallizes Denudes and Crazy Horse and the tightly wound simplicity of  Suicide and the Velvet Underground.