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Woods: "Where and What Are You" (Video)

9:00 a.m. · July 24, 2009 · by Nick Neyland

Woods’ Songs of Shame is one of the best albums of 2009. Its melancholy vibe and the beautiful falsetto of singer Jeremy Earl positively demand repeat plays, and the band’s sound is helped into life by some wonderful tape manipulation from G. Lucas Crane. The record has been released on the reliably excellent Woodsist label.

This short clip for “Where and What Are You” is barely a music video at all; instead, it’s a simple shot of a pen circling various clues on a crossword puzzle, ultimately producing a doodle that’s difficult to discern. It may be the most low budget promo clip of all time, and Will Shortz would no doubt take a dim view of such crossword puzzle abuse.