Love Is Love

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'We took to the streets and got on trains, wearing our faces like masks of fear. Since we didn't know how to react, all of us together did not react. We mourned an ideal we thought was imperishable. We mourned our certainties.' This is how Woods' latest album, 'Love Is Love,' is introduced, solemnly by Sam Hockley-Smith, a critic at The Fader. From this introduction, we learn that it was Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential elections that prompted the group to break their usual rhythm of producing an album every one to two years. And indeed, it seems, it is this collapse of certainties that is at the origin of these six tracks, long ballads oscillating between pop and psychedelia, written and recorded in one go, in urgency but not in haste.