Album Notes

"Close your eyes and the first track ‘A Devil’s Coming’ could be playing while the opening shots of The Shining are playing. Which, come to think of it, would be appropriate. Not that this brief track is creepy, it IS an establishing ‘shot’ though – and the mountain road to the Overlook makes sense to the feeling of a slightly ominous path the album may take into isolated territory. It’s not a Gothic album but a certain American Gothic sensibility is evident. It’s one of the most commercial Indie albums I’ve got my mits on this far but that shouldn’t be taken to mean it’s overly commercial – just a classically excellent record that I can imagine lots of UK writers getting excited about. To rather labour the cinematic metaphor this album is like a U.S. Indie film rather than a U.S. Indie album, when you’re in the Woods and the sun shines it’s breath-taking. In the Woods in the dark and it’s unnerving." Sic.magazine.net

"Listening to Ravenna Woods is kind of like listening to the indie acoustic soundtrack to the Temple of Doom. Imagine yourself running through a jungle somewhere from some sort of danger; let’s say a troop of crazy monkeys. And all of the sudden you hear an acoustic guitar being played in an urgent frenzy to match the pace of your sprint. Then, some heavy, ominous percussion kicks in accompanied by oddly hopeful xylophone chimes. At this point you start to think you may have over reacted about the monkeys. But then you hear someone sing “I want you to wake up at the bottom of a lake,” and you start to realize these monkeys are serious." Seattle Show Gal (seattleshowgal.com)

"This album is an amalgamation of literature, dreams, politics, folklore and stories all blended up and anchored loosely around an experience I had living in the outer island community if Jabor, Jaluit in the Marshall Islands." Chris Cunningham