ERNEST HOOD - Back to the Woodlands LP Kraut 4AD group Merchandise has collaborated

4AD group Merchandise has collaborated with Sub Pop recording artist Dum Dum Girls for the new “Red Sun” b/w “Echo” 7” single

largely instrumental sound eludes easy definition

repetitive passages bring a reduced version of early Stereolab to mind

Stand out It’s Your House is pure honey pouring from the speaker on a bank of of arps and near-hymnal vocal layering

well buttered with spacy and timeless aura

ERNEST HOOD - Back to the Woodlands LP Kraut 4AD group Merchandise has collaboratedWritten and recorded between 1972 and 1982 in Western Oregon, Back to the Woodlands is a previously unreleased, and nearly lost, album made by Ernest Hood during the same era as his near mythical album Neighborhoods . A visionary combination of field recordings, zithers, and synthesizers, Back to the Woodlands offers an unprecedented depth of access to this singular artistic mind. Born into a musical family, Ernest Hood began a promising career as a