Wooden Shjips - West Condition:New • MacIntyre also travelled across

• MacIntyre also travelled across America's deep south for inspiration

frenzied and often cinematic music was at the vanguard of the burgeoning screamo movement

now in his early forties

Becky Buller

Wooden Shjips - West Condition:New • MacIntyre also travelled acrossVinyl LP pressing. West marks the first time the band recorded in a proper studio, as well as the first time with an engineer (Phil Manley). All previous recordings, either self released, for Holy Mountain, or Mexican Summer were done more piecemeal in the band's rehearsal studio. West was recorded and mixed in six days at Lucky Cat Studios in San Francisco. It was mastered by Sonic Boom at Blanker Unisinn, Brooklyn, with additional mastering by Heba