Woods | John Andrews and the Yawns at Songbyrd DC
Schedule
Fri Oct 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Location
Songbyrd Music House | Washington, DC
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Songbyrd Presents Woods
with John Andrews and the Yawns
Friday October 11, 2024
Doors - 7:00 PM
Show - 8:00 PM
Tickets
Advance - $25
Day of - $28
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Woods are in bloom again, inviting you to disappear into a new spectrum of colors and sounds and dreams on Perennial.
Formed in Brooklyn in 2004, Woods have matured into a true independent institution, above and below the root, reliably emerging every few years with new music that grows towards the latest sky. Operating the Woodsist label since 2006 and curating the beloved homespun Woodsist Festival for the musical universe they’ve built, Perennial is the sound of a band on the edge of their 20th anniversary and still finding bold new ways to sound like (and challenge) themselves.
Perennial grew from a bed of guitar/keyboard/drum loops by Woods head-in-chief Jeremy Earl, a form of winter night meditation that evolved into an unexplored mode of collaborative songwriting. With Earl’s starting points, he and bandmates Jarvis Taveniere and John Andrews convened, first at Earl’s house in New York, then at Panoramic House studio in Stinson Beach, California, site of sessions for 2020’s Strange To Explain. With a view of the sparkling Pacific and tape rolling, they began to build, jamming over the loops, switching instruments, and developing a few dozen building blocks.
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ew Jersey-born multi-instrumentalist John Andrews worked with several bands before stepping out on his own with solo project John Andrews & the Yawns -- "the Yawns" being a fictional backing band at first, as Andrews played all the instruments on his debut. He did employ accompanists for his later albums, but his low-key and lo-fi pop vision changed very little once he had a band, with his murmured vocals and subtle, melodic keyboard work still his stylistic hallmarks. 2015's Bit by the Fang and 2017's Bad Posture were tuneful exercises in dreamlike indie pop, while 2021's Cookbook and 2023's Love for the Underdog tightened the focus on his '70s California soft rock influences.
John Andrews always worked on solo compositions, but he notably contributed drums to indie act and organ/keyboards to fuzzy folk-rockers . Being a full-time member of both these bands made it difficult to find time and space to complete his own recordings. Andrews began work on a debut album in 2013 when living in the remote Amish country of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Over the next several months, Andrews eventually decamped to his grandparents' New Jersey home, where he set up in their vacant living room and re-recorded the warm, -informed roots pop songs that made up his 2015 debut, Bit by the Fang, which saw release on the label.
After relocating to a Colonial farmhouse in the woodland of Barrington, New Hampshire with musician friends, he went to work on his second album. Recorded on the property with housemates including Rachel Neveu of , and Lukas Goudreault and Joey Schneider of Soft Eyes, Bad Posture followed in 2017, comprising more rootsy psych-pop. 2021's Cookbook saw Andrews paying more explicit homage to '70s soft rock, with the opening track, "New California Blue," written specifically to pay tribute to . An album tracked live to tape across New York State with his ' touring bandmates (Max Clarke, Noah Bond, and 's Keven Lareau), 2023's Love for the Underdog followed suit while adding a string quartet to its late-summer palette.
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Where is it happening?
Songbyrd Music House, 540 Penn Street N.E,Washington D.C., Washington, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
