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Infobox musical artist | name = Wooden Shjips| image = WoodenShjips.jpg| caption = Performing in New York, 2010| image_size = | background = group_or_band| origin = San Francisco , USA | instrument =| genre = Psychedelic rock , Space rock | years_active = 2006 to Present| label = http://www.holymountain.com/artists/wooden-shjips Holy Mountain| associated_acts =| website = http://www.woodenshjips.com Official web site| current_members = Erik "Ripley" Johnson Dusty Jermier Nash Whalen Omar Ahsanuddin Wooden Shjips (pronounced shyips) is a space rock / psychedelic rock cite news | url = http://www.nme.com/reviews/wooden-shjips--2/11148 | title = Album Review: Wooden Shjips - 'Vol 2' (Sick Thirst) | author = John Doran | work = http://www.nme.com The NME| date = 2010-03-19 | accessdate = 2010-04-04 cite news | url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/mar/28/wooden-shjips-vol-2-tw | title = Vol 2 by Wooden Shjips | author = http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/killianfox Killian Fox| work = http://observer.guardian.co.uk/ The Observer| date = 2010-03-28 | accessdate = 2010-04-04 Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot band from San Francisco , USA.
Their sound has been described as experimental, minimalist,cite news | url = http://drownedinsound.com/in_depth/2430248 | title = DiScover: Wooden Shjips | author = http://drownedinsound.com/users/HimTall HimTall| work = http://drownedinsound.com Drowned in Sound| date = 2007-010-02 | accessdate = 2010-04-04 drone rock,cite news | url = http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2007/09/25/frickes-picks-wooden-shjips-tulsa-and-your-33-black-angels/ | title = Fricke’s Picks: Wooden Shjips, Tulsa and Your 33 Black Angels | author = David Fricke | work = http://www.rollingstone.com Rolling Stone| date = 2007-09-25 | accessdate = 2010-04-04 and "spacey psychedelic rock". They have been compared to Suicide (band)|Suicide , The Velvet Underground , The Doors , Soft Machine and Guru Guru . They are currently signed to Holy Mountain records, whose artist roster also includes Six Organs of Admittance , Om (band)|Om , Mammatus (band)|Mammatus and Lungfish_(band)#Related_projects:_Daniel_Higgs|Daniel Higgs .cite news | url = http://www.holymountain.com/artists/ | title = Holy Mountain - Artists | work = http://www.holymountain.com/artists/ Holy Mountain website| accessdate = 2010-04-04
Wooden Shjips guitarist Ripley Johnson also plays in a side project, Moon Duo , formed in 2009 with Sanae Yamada.cite news | url = http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk/2010/03/13/moon-duo-interview-sxsw-2010/ | title = Moon Duo Interview: SXSW 2010 | author = Matt Meisinger | work = http://www.spinnermusic.co.uk Spinner UK| date = 2010-03-13 | accessdate = 2010-04-04 They have so far released one EP (Killing Time, 2009, on Sacred Bones) and two albums (Escape, 2010, on Woodsist; Mazes, 2011, on Sacred Bones).
The group played the All Tomorrow's Parties (music festival)|ATP New York 2010 music festival in Monticello, New York in September 2010 at the request of film director Jim Jarmusch . In August 2011 the group released their third LP, entitled West, on Thrill Jockey . http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/? id=105366
(2008) Vampire Blues 7" (Sick Thirst) (500 copies red sleeve, 500 copies white sleeve)
(2009) Big City (Demo) / I Believe It 7" (split with Spacemen 3 ) (The Great Pop Supplement) (limited edition, red marble vinyl)
(2009) Contact 12" (Mexican Summer) (550 copies white vinyl)
(2010) Oh Tennenbaum / Auld Lang Syne 12" (vinyl reissue of Holiday Cassingle) (Sick Thirst) (500 copies red vinyl green cover, 500 copies green vinyl red cover)
(2010) Tour Of Australia And New Zealand March 2010 7" (Sick Thirst) (730 copies)
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Wooden Shjips
http://www.woodenshjips.com/ Official Site
http://www.holymountain.com/artists/wooden-shjips/ Holy Mountain artist page
