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Woodhouse Interviews

Nathan Stevens

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00:30:00

Nina Maia: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2025/10/02

INTERIA moves like a swan. Graceful on the surface, churning below to keep afloat.Nina Maia’s remarkably assured debut arrives with shimmering beauty. The production is sleek and lush by turns, her voice is pop diva perfection with a hint of smoldering, darker powers at the edges. But the influence of trip-hop detours and bursting walls of sound put INTERIA at an odd, intriguing place, even among other Brazilian pop albums that delight in flashing their myriad influences. We talked with Nina

00:18:32

Bask: Woodhouse Interviews

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2025/09/19

The Turning is a pulp novel turned into a metal album.And that is some of the highest praise I can heap on North Carolina stalwarts Bask. The churning mix of country, stoner metal, old school rock’n’roll, and cosmic storytelling lands The Turning somewhere between Conan and John Carter. It’s space cowboys with riffs. But this is no thudding slab of simple guitar chugging. The evolution of these ever spiraling, mutating songs is astonishing, and with pedal steel and strings in tow, The Turning is

00:21:20

WA Keys: Woodhouse Interview

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2025/08/15

Heavenly reverb is suddenly shattered.Jack Tobias loves ruptures. That’s clear from his work in YHWH Nailgun, where machine gunning synths burst through previously coherent sonic thoughts. On his solo EP Warm People, he pulls off the same trick, enshrouding the songs in ethereal production, then the hammer drops. We talked to him here on The Woodhouse.

00:29:22

Cave Sermon: Woodhouse Interviews

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2025/06/26

The names in Fragile Wings suggest softness; tenuous and brittle. And there is desperation in “Hopeless Magic,” “Three-Headed Moth” and, of course, the album title. But the album is anything but fragile. A deft mixture of progressive, death, and post-metal, Australia’s Cave Sermon delivers a rousing manifesto, in the same echelon as Deafheaven or Baroness, able to match impenetrable sludge with roaring beauty. We talked to Charlie Park on the Woodhouse.

00:23:43

Alex Zethson · Johan Jutterström: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2025/06/10

Stockholm duo Alex Zethson and Johan Jutterström’s new album is a beautiful, minimal reflection on perfectionism and failure.Through an intense and intimate recording process that picks up the clack of saxophone valves, and the humming of piano strings, It Could/If I refuses to let anyone forget there are two flawed, imperfect humans behind the music. The album reaches into melancholy and uncanniness similar to MK Velsorf & Aase Nielsen’s Opening Night, and meditates on how music is perfect

00:27:52

Will Stratton: Woodhouse Interviews

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2025/05/07

A pyromaniac haunts Points of Origin.John Leonard Orr, a serial arsonist who was also a fire investigator, shambles through Will Stratton’s excellent new album as a wayward grim reaper. But fire itself does not haunt Points of Origin. How could it when it’s the blazing heart of the album? From the former conman forecasting his propane-fueled death to the eon-spanning “Red Crossed Star,” which charts thousands of years of crimes and flames carving California, fire is all matter and all that matters

00:20:50

Quinton Barnes: Woohouse Interviews

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2025/05/01

“I’m a savage/I’m a sad bitch,”slurs Quinton Barnes. He’s more the former than the latter on CODE NOIR. The Canadian rapper blends R&B, hip-hop, house, hyperpop, and anything else that would inject his beats with color and panache. There are moments of vulnerability, but Barnes is mostly here to celebrate and giggle. We talked to him below.

00:40:51

Baths - Gut: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2025/04/02

Supplication offers a path.Christianity, heteronormativity, they promise a program. Follow us, do not question, and you will be rewarded. What happens when you stray?That’s a core question behind Baths. Will Wiesenfeld’s electronic project has asked it again and again, especially on 2013’s brilliant Obsidian. And the uncertainty has come roaring back on his newest Gut. Gut refers to Wiesenfeld’s promise to act instinctually while crafting the album, allowing impulses to direct the music. And that’s

00:34:53

Matt Elliott: Woodhouse Interviews

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2025/03/25

Ghosts litter Drinking Songs. The damned drowned, dying soldiers, innocents packed onto a train before it explodes; there’s not a note on Drinking Songs that isn’t haunted. Released 20 years ago this year, Drinking Songs marked a foundational shift in Matt Elliott’s life. He abandoned his work in the drum & bass group Third Eye Foundation and found a different way to pedal dread. Elliott composed using a morass of phantom vocals, nylon guitar, off-kilter piano, wailing horns, and a pervasive

00:31:00

Tarta Relena: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2025/02/25

The voice is an instrument. The voice is the narrative. Flipping between at least four different languages, and darting across each others’ vocal ranges, Catalan duo Tarta Relena offer a confounding, exhilarating version of vocal-focused music. Drawing from Gregorian chant, autotune forays, and Drum & Bass, their newest album És pregunta, could’ve been a total mess, but Helena Ros Redon and Marta Torrella i Martínez’s strident voices serve as an awe-inspiring, unshakeable foundation. We talked

00:24:20

Trust Fund: Woodhouse Interviews

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2025/01/13

We open by discussing an Irish goodbye vs a French exit.The phraseology is different but the outcome is the same; “Leaving the Party Early.” The first song on Trust Fund’s excellent Has it Been A While? and a perfect introduction to the introspection, paradoxes, and uncertainty all coming from a core human experience: terrified of being known, and knowing that’s the only way to be loved. Trust Fund ringleader Ellis Jones’ dexterous guitar work follows him through philosophical discussions entwined

00:27:26

Ahmed, With Love. Woodhouse Interview

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2025/01/07

Wrestler, rapper, world champion, pharmacist. Ahmed, With Love. might have the strangest resume of any MC alive. The Dublin-based rapper has joined a growing throng of Irish artist embracing a colorful, playful wave of hip-hop, influenced by ‘90s rap greats, but also a smattering mix of Brazilian beats, electronic silliness, and rave euphoria. We talked to him below.

00:29:07

Sanje: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/12/19

Can you have a pleasant haunting?Sanje thinks so. “You can be Casper!” he says with a laugh. The lead single from his stunning debut, De Repente Otra Vez, is “Buen Fantasma,” the story of a long lost soul following those it once loved. But Sanje doesn’t envision any Paranormal Activity shenanigans, instead, this phantom wants to dance, hug, and watch over those it was connected to. It’s a lovely thought, paired with a slamming Cumbia beat and a triumphant trombone-lead hook. Plucking influences

00:32:12

Lifter: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/12/18

It’s autumn, and everything has changed.Band members come and go, songs mutate, the seasons shift. There’s an acceptance, both in title and general mood, for Clasping Hands with the Moribund, another entry into the U.K.’s recent salvo of excellent folk-rock. And as these prog-infused songs suggest, acceptance through art is one of the few ways to survive meteoric changes. We talked to Lifter below.

00:31:37

Scott Orr: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/12/13

Albums are not usually conversations.Or if they are, they’re pretty one way. Not so for Scott Orr’s Miracle Body, a deeply comforting slice of jazz, new age, and sophisti-pop that melds together into one of 2024’s most welcoming records. With his fluttering falsetto Orr ushers us in, sits us down, and offers tea and conversation. We talked to him below.

00:40:17

Chris Acker: Woodhouse Interviews

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2024/12/02

Dumbasses, gimmick peddlers, conmen coned by their own bosses dot Famous Lunch. Chris Acker isn’t depressed, he’s just disappointed. And his sighing country tunes, tasteful pedal steel and all, just need a nap. From the surprisingly pretty letdown “Shit Surprise,” to the deeply confused self-reflection “Don't You Know (Who I Think I Am),” Acker uses a rouges gallery as a mirror, a warped perspective that’s occasionally clarifying, often baffling. We talked to him below.

00:27:07

Sangre de Muerdago: Woodhouse Interview

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2024/11/01

Singing at the edge of the world.Staring into the cold Atlantic, watching the waves crash all around, and seeing only the pale blue of the horizon must be sublime. And sublime in its original meaning, something that invokes awe with a touch of terror. There are few moments that remind humans of their smallness like staring into the void of the sea. Sangre de Muerdago aims to grasp that feeling with every release. Using a fusion of traditional instruments and folk-stories from their native Galicia,

00:40:12

And So I Watch You From Afar - Megafauna: Woodhouse...

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/10/11

Is “crushing joy” a thing?That’s the only way I can describe And So I Watch You From Afar and, especially, their newest album Megafauna. There are few bands as loud as the Belfast boys, but the chords that fall down like an Everest avalanche are all major, the electrifying guitar lines soar and crunch with equal ferocity. Megafauna is getting punched in the face and smiling. But that’s what ASIWYFA have done their entire careers. What this record truly does is balance the difference between their

00:49:33

Peter Oren-Cloud Song: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/09/18

“I wondered lonely as a cloud.” Emphasis on lonely.Troubadour, vagabond, carpenter, folk-singer Peter Oren broke out in 2017 with his mythological heavy Anthropocene, with themes as crushing as his rumbling bass-baritone voice. Seven years on, Cloud Song finds him wrangling with both physical troubles and existential dread. In his view, the old Wordsworth poem can be played as an individual briefly drifting through life, untethered, for better and worse, from the earth. Beautiful and pensive,

00:48:06

And So I Watch You From Afar: Woodhouse Interviews

Woodhouse Interviews ·

2024/08/23

And So I Watch You From Afar are as joyous as their name is ridiculous. Like an energy drink being shoved into your soul. Like the world’s happiest mosh-pit. Like punching god in the face after climbing Mt. Everest. The ebullient drubbing produced by ASIWYFA has no musical comparison, just impossible physical feats that barely glimpse the improbability of this color-strewn noise. Math-rock, post-rock, the labels don’t really matter. What the Belfast quartet has always done is extolled the

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