Wooll Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/wooll/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Wooll Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/wooll/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite homegrown songs of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/10/year-in-review-vanyalands-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2025/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 14:54:47 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042791 Well, that happened. 2025 was definitely a year, a whole 12-month rollout of the most absurd political and economic developments in recent memory. (A presidential administration accidentally texting out military strike plans? Kim Kardashian hawking faux-hair thongs? The tsunami of AI slop rapidly overtaking the equally-vapid Internet ragebait made by actual humans? How can a loving god permit such lunacy?) But the end of the year is always ripe for counting blessings, and as 2025 comes to a close, we’re […]

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]]> Wooll settle into a snuggly sound with new EP ‘Frickish’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/11/06/wooll-settle-into-a-snuggly-sound-with-new-ep-frickish/ Thu, 06 Nov 2025 19:35:06 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042618 Here we are, five days after Daylight Saving Time ended, and Wooll’s already tucking us in for hibernation season. That’s not a complaint — the Providence band’s new EP Frickish is 19 minutes of snuggly, subdued shoegaze. The project arrived today (November 6) and follows their May album Thistle, home to one of our favorite tracks of 2025, “LIC.” Although there’s a few new SOTY contenders in the ring from Frickish: Twisting opener “By the Skin of My (Your) Teeth,” […]

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]]> Half-Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s 10 favorite homegrown songs of 2025 (so far) https://vanyaland.com/2025/07/03/half-year-in-review-vanyalands-10-favorite-homegrown-songs-of-2025-so-far/ Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:27:45 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041944 We’re at that point in 2025 when it’s time to say “what a year, huh?” To which you respond, “it’s July.” But whether the months have zipped by or moved like molasses, the homegrown tunes released over the last six months have provided a soundtrack for powering through whatever nonsense 2025 and its hellions hurls at us. From Western Massachusetts alt-county to pops of punk and shoegaze from Providence, here are 10 of Vanyaland’s favorite homegrown songs of the year […]

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]]> Wooll spin melancholy shoegaze with new single ‘LIC’ https://vanyaland.com/2025/03/21/wooll-spin-melancholy-shoegaze-with-new-single-lic/ Fri, 21 Mar 2025 13:25:05 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10041009 “LIC,” the new single from Wooll, technically isn’t a sonnet. And per the Providence band, the tune’s sound doesn’t fit squarely under “shoegaze” — they instead hear it as “shoegaze-adjacent.” But damn if “LIC” isn’t the closest thing to a shoegaze sonnet we’ll ever hear. The new song — which is short for “left in circles” — is a melancholic twister that’s laced with heart-piercing lines (peep the potency of the near-Shakespearean observation “sweetness realized much too late”). “LIC” follows […]

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