As an antidote to this morning’s mournful ramblings about Isla Vista and Hurray for the Riff Raff’s St. Roch Blues, we offer up flipside solace in the uplift of three songs by the great Brooklyn band Woods.

We were first won over by the jangle-psych-pop of Woods in 2010. It seems like just yesterday that Woods came out and stole the Jensens Backstage from much-loved hipsters Kurt Vile and Real Estate, in retrospect one of the best triple-bills ever pulled together in recent Santa Barbara (thanks, again, to Club Mercy!).  Woods was further emblazoned in our ears with their superb set at the 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival.  Then in 2012 the band released one of our favorite songs of all of 2012, Cali In A Cup , which featured three of our favorite things:  California, a cup (we assume glass?) and some musical sunshine.

In April Woods released their latest album, With Light And With Love, to deserved critical acclaim (even the Pitchforkers gave the album a 7.9 rating).  Now comes the news that Woods will release on July 8th release a new 7″ single that includes two non-album tracks, Tambourine Light and Tomorrow’s Only Yesterday.  Listen below to the sanguine Tambourine Light, followed by two superb songs off of With Light and With Love, and go buy the single HERE and the latest album HERE.  These are sunny, warming songs we hope will bring you back into the light.

Woods will begin a new tour soon and is coming to Cali in August.