(2020) Woods - Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King)


Review:
Indie folk outfit Woods have returned with a new rarities collection called Reflections Vol. 1 (Bumble Bee Crown King). The project follows Woods’ 11th studio effort, Strange to Explain, from this past May. In normal, pre-coronavirus times, they’d be touring the world in support of it, but they decided to roll with the punches and unlock some unreleased material from the vault. In a statement, Woods summarized all the goodies that can be found on Reflections, which they consider “a lost record”: “With no touring this year, and possibly next, we decided to take a deep dive into our archives and put together the first volume of our much discussed archival series, Reflections. Featuring rare and unreleased recordings from 2009 – 2013, Including a ghost town desert jam off the side of the highway, our first live performance in Big Sur, the first recorded version of Bend Beyond and some shelved diamonds in the rough that were finished up during quarantine. Our hope is that it plays like a ‘lost record’ from an extremely strange and fruitful period in Woods history.” Notably, a couple of songs feature performances by former member Kevin Morby, who has since gone on to launch his own successful solo career and is in the midst of releasing his sixth album Campfire.





Tracklist:
01 - Bumble Bee Crown King
02 - Midnight Moment
03 - Be Kind My Love
04 - Skull
05 - Party in the Pines
06 - Space and Time
07 - Ballad of Jim Jones
08 - Bend Beyond (First Version)


Media Report:
Genre: indie-folk
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits