Woods Rock for me is characterized by its integration of horns, strings, sometimes gentle guitar, crooning and of course, hand claps. Both of these tracks by Secret Dakota Ring and Frontier Ruckus follow this outline to the promised land of the soaring, expansive West. Their music evokes images of an unspoiled landscape filled with bright eyed joy. Each band uses strings and horns to great success and I'm excited to add them both to my Woods Rock canon. Check them out for yourselves.
Secret Dakota Ring - The Fade to Black
Frontier Ruckus - Orion Town 2
Also, keep an eye on Theophilus London, a young rapper MC who I think is going to blow up. Check him out over at Neon Gold, who not only run an outstanding blog, but are also a start up label who represent TSRE favorites Passion Pit. I love those guys. But yeah, Mr. London as I like to call him gets some help from some interesting, glitchy beats and just rhymes seemlessly all over it. Download the his mixtape JAM! at the Neon Gold site. DO IT!
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