The Beatles once proclaimed that All You Need Is Love but in a hate filled world this laudable message now seems increasingly simplistic and naive.
Recorded two months after Trump's election, Woods from New York cast such cynicism aside to revive loving awareness in order to provide "proof that light can come from despair and hope is still possible".
Wishing doesn't make it so of course but one can still appreciate the gesture of regarding fearful events as bad waking dreams rather than a series of recurring nightmares.
The six song album's centrepiece is the ten minute long instrumental Spring Is In The Air a hypnotic, swirling piece of astral psychedelia
The record is bookended by two versions of the title track, the second is subtitled Sun On Time, and each has a funky '70s groove.
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A sense of bewilderment fuels Lost In The Crowd ("Just when we thought when it couldn't get worse") but with the triumphal trumpeteering of Bleeding Blue and the healing drone of Hit The Drum the emphasis is on finding reasons to be hopeful about the shape of things to come.
After all, as we all know, it's love not hate that makes the world go round.
Woods' website
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