Creature and the Woods are a harmonic brotherhood, dredging the grooves of rock and roll roots and American mythology. After forming in 2014 and undergoing an abrupt lineup change in 2015, Creature and the Woods quickly earned critical applause and regional attention with the purity of their heart-pounding live performances and the intensity of lead singer, Roger Molina’s storytelling. Balancing punk ethos with the melodic sensibility of a folk singing group, the quintet pulses with a distant heart beat, grounded in an all-to-present perspective. Bashing mallet and drum, Creature and the Woods howl from inside the sage journey, inside the core of Americana, inexplicably carving new songs out of the bedrock of ancestral land.
With the release of their debut album, Rise in2017, Creature and the Woods set the new vanguard of Southern California roots music. The eight song release moves from hard times ballad to a rock and roll throw down with all the reverie of a hallucinatory choir.
Expanding their own melodic lore, Creature and the Woods recorded a follow-up E.P., J Tree, immersed in the light of the super moon over a handful of days in Joshua Tree National Park. J Tree finds the group navigating the metaphysics of their origin while hunting the uncharted sounds only found in overwhelming places. J Tree is due for release in May (PRE-ORDER).
The experience of soaking up the desert vibes while creating music is captured in the band’s new video for their song “2 Golden Coins”, which we are excited to premiere on Glide today. The video is a collection of all the moments that it took to make J Tree, but it feels less like in-studio footage as it does a short film about brotherhood through music. With a Southern rock edge, the song is a feel-good morsel of catchy harmonies, stomping beats, and boogie woogie grooves. The band balances that laid back California vibe with a throwback rock sound, and throws in plenty of spicy guitar licks to keep things lively.
Talking about the song, band leader Roger Molina says, “‘2 Golden Coins’, my favorite song on the record, is a pinnacle of American folk ideals—love, love lost and reborn again. About finding new hope. Belief. New love. It’s a song about feeling good about what is, what was and what will be.”
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