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Upon releasing our first totally-brothers-produced EP (EP1) in 2004, we recruited friends to form a live band. Once we found our show-legs on the tiny stage of the Phog Lounge, we began making jaunts around SW Ontario, released a second EP in May 2006 as a full band (EP2), and completed two eastern Canadian tours. We had fun and grew as people and musicians. However, as a four piece band with a string of talented yet ill-fit guitar players, Yellow Wood had seriously slowed down by 2008, playing shows sporadically and struggling to write songs with the vitality of earlier material. This led us to a crossroads.
In June 2008 we made the difficult decision to cut the band back down to it's core elements for the sake of creating music we believed in and were excited about. Since then we haven't played any shows, and have instead dedicated full-time to writing and recording our first full-length record. The summer was an exploration of weird sounds and new approaches to our songwriting. In the fall Ryan rejoined us as we completed and demoed around 20 new songs, which have been cut down over the winter to 13 crackling new tracks that we are very excited to share with you. They are, in our opinion, the best thing we've ever done. Bold, abrasive, pretty, subtle, bombastic, poignant, base, dancey, epic... we hope to get your juices flowing.
We're holding onto the completed "Son of the Oppressor" album and starting to play live again as we see what industry interest may (or may not) develop. In any case, we will release it in the fall when we plan to hit the road. -early summer 2009