New Wooman: “Sun”

ByPatrick St. Michel

Post-Cuz-Me-Pain band Wooman has a new album out next week, and “Sun” hints that they are just a touch more focused this time around. Early releases from this fuzz-accented project embraced a garage-centered playfulness balanced out by some of the shadowy tension of their younger days, with songs feeling seconds away from zipping into chaos. “Sun,” though, unfolds more deliberately. It starts out jaunty but with some melancholy creeping in, everything slowly picking up in intensity without ever feeling like its heading off track. But it all builds to one big rev up to close out the song, Wooman using more concentration to make everything click together come the end. Listen above.

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