Wooden Shjips - Ruins (All Axis)

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From Diffuser.fm premiere story:

On their latest album, Back to Land, Wooden Shjips wrap up "Ruins" in a neat and tidy 5:14. Onstage, it tends to run a bit longer, and in this exclusive live video — shot on Nov. 14 by All Axis at the Knitting Factory in Brooklyn — the San Francisco psych-rock voyagers go for 7:02, letting singer and guitarist Ripley Johnson heap torrents of freaky, fuzzy noise atop a repetitive bass-and-organ groove.

The All Axis gang makes the performance even more awesomely disorienting by working in split-screen effects and other visual tricks not seen since those crazy days of late-'60s variety shows. Whether you missed the Shjips' Brooklyn gig or were there and just can't remember a damn thing, you'll want to sit through this entire clip. Just don't operate a forklift or anything immediately afterward.