Consequence of Sound — Slowdive and Wooden Shjips lead an impressive wave of new additions. more info

Stereogum — Whether you're looking for an antidote to the sameness of many major American festivals or whether you're looking for the opportunity to watch a bunch of stoner-friendly artists in the desert, California's Desert Daze has often boasted pretty intrigu... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Wooden Shjips, Death Valley Girls, Cosomonauts, L.A. Witch, Vinyl Williams, and more were also added. Continue reading… more info

DrownedInSound — The San Francisco quartet want to lift the fog more info

JamBase — Release Day Picks this week highlights new albums by Del McCoury Band, The Travelin' McCourys and Wooden Shjips. The post Release Day Picks: May 25th New Album Highlights appeared first on JamBase. more info

Aquarium Drunkard — Wooden Shjips, the bay-area quartet led by Moon Duo’s Ripley Johnson, release their fifth album, V., via the stalwart Thrill Jockey Records today. As the shadows cast begin to lengthen out here on the east, this new disc’s heavy dose of... more info

DrownedInSound — Wooden Shjips’ fifth record, like pretty much all their records, is a pleasant, fun listen more info

LargeHeartedBoy — Agnes Obel's Late Night Tales, Chvrches's Love Is Dead, Jenny Hval's The Long Sleep EP, Wand's Perfume, and Wooden Shjips' V are the new releases I can recommend this week. Box sets include Ornette Coleman's 10-LP The Atlantic Years.... more info

Stereogum — Tomorrow, zoned-out space-rock wizards Wooden Shjips will release V. , their first new album in five years. It's a gorgeous, inviting, blissed-out record, way more relaxed and unashamedly pretty than many of the band's past records, and it's our cur... more info

Stereogum — A little while ago, I interviewed Roc Marciano, a rapper and producer whose music I really like. It didn’t go well. Much of the short interview was devoted to awkward conversational fumbling, the sort of thing that happens when a writer and a music... more info