The New Nexus of My Universe

is the Woodsist label. The future-gazing folks behind the scenes there really have their eyes on the prize right now, putting out avalanches of saliva-inducing releases by artists such as Ganglians, Woods, Psychedelic Horseshit, Wavves, the aforementioned Kurt Vile, Blank Dogs, Sun Araw and Magic Lantern, to name a few. The whole of the lot spray their quirks all over their music, an amalgam of mega lo-fi art rock that swing a pendulum from artful sludge riddled with ennui to epically unbridled fountains of frothy sonic glee.

But let's pause at Ganglians for just a minute:

"Hair"


"Never Mind"


I'm addicted to their bullets of psych folk rock. These bearded Sacramento freaks are really on a roll right now, having just released an LP and EP simultaneously to much positive press. There's a spontaneity to their music, found in their absurdist use of bizarre sound effects and all-over-the-map group vocal acrobatics, that really turns my brain on--and I still only have their self-titled EP. Next up is Monster Head Room, their other Woodsist bag of tricks I can't wait to put into my ears--an adventure surely to be documented on these pages. Look for them onstage as well, grinding with Frisco's own Hospitals at Amnesia.