Woo

*Warehouse find. 2025 stock* Emotional Rescue and Woo came together across 3 reissue albums and 1 bonus 7”, introducting the Clive and Mark Ives music to a myriad of new fans.  The crowning release was undoubtedly the pressing on to vinyl first time of Into The Heart Of Love, as well as a full CD release following the exact track list of the original previously cassette only album. A joyous, uplifting ode to love in all it’s forms, the trials and tribulations and ultimately the triumphs are all encapsulted in Woo’s unique soundscapes.

Of all the myriad of released and unreleased Woo recordings, Into The Heart Of Love is without a doubt their most complete and cohesive body of work.  Full of Woo’s quirky analogue dub electronics, there is also a very English sense of folk. With more vocals then their other albums, the structure and softness of mood quintessentially comes from the Mother Isle.

Mark’s guitar craft is at its most expressive, entwined with subtle bass, a breadth of clarinet and touches of piano. This is all mixed and merged beautifully with Clive’s now recognisable desk and synthesiser mastery. As individual as anything you’d hear coming from the Black Ark. Drawing you into it’s swirls and layers upon layers, slowly wrapping you in it’s own special, spectral soundcape.  The lilting hopes, joy, optimism and peace expressed. The simplicity but detailed interplay between the two brothers is telepathic. It had to be. It’s Love.