Woods – Sun and Shade

Woods have a very suitable name. From the head-nodding, foot-tapping, retro-sounding first chords of Sun and Shade, you realise you're spending time with a record that would sound very, very good indeed when listened to on a pair of headphones in a blue-bell strewn glade somewhere suitably remote.

On this, the Brooklyn-based band's sixth album, they rarely leave their lo-fi, folk-inflected spot between the trees. To Have In The Home is the mid-tempo standard, whereas Wouldn't Waste takes it down a notch or two, highlighting Woods’ knack for finger picking finesse. Sol and Sombra (see what they've done there, Spanish fans?) introduces an instrumental, if slightly predictable, psychedelic tack.

But Say Goodbye is the album highlight, which hangs around "like the cool breeze" mentioned in the lyrics. Sun and Shade might not change your summer, but it'll give you something pretty to nod along to as the world drifts past your window. [PJ Meiklem]