Wight Get Literal with “Through the Woods into Deep Water”
The good news is that German trio Wight are getting ready to embark on their third record. The not-necessarily-a-downside-but-one-feels-compelled-to-make-it-a-contrast-anyway news is that means leaving their second outing, 2012’s continually-appealing Through the Woods into Deep Water (review here), behind as they move forward. Much to their credit, I think Wight are doing so in grand style. While it seems they’ll continue to play at least some of the material live, guitarist/vocalist René Hoffmann, bassist/saxophonist Peter-Philipp Schierhorn and drummer Thomas Kurek have nonetheless decided to give Through the Woods into Deep Water a sort of Viking funeral, taking the album’s title-track out into the forest for a ritual farewell.
In keeping with the full-length’s organic nature and psychedelic sprawl, Wight play “Through the Woods into Deep Water” live in their new video, with sound captured by Hoffmann (he’s done live audio for Monster Magnet, among others) and direction by Johanna Amberg. The woods in which they’re jamming are located in Eutersee, Hesseneck–Schöllenbach, and they seem to have found the perfect clearing among all the old growth to jam out. The purging is complete when, as the song winds its way toward its languid conclusion, Wight jump in a lake and wash themselves clean, a literal portrayal of going through the woods and into deep water of a mind with the slow movement of the track itself.
Through the Woods into Deep Water was a huge leap forward from Wight‘s 2011 debut, Wight Weedy Wight (review here), and the two were really only separated by one year. Since the three-piece’s next one isn’t likely to show up before 2015, that’ll be nearly three years between their second and third albums, so it should be fascinating to hear the direction they take their sound. One more to look forward to hearing in the New Year, and in the meantime, a stellar goodbye to this era of the band.
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