On Grace & Dignity
On Grace & Dignityâs origins lie in winter 2020 when Woods lost his job in lockdown and moved back to his parentsâ house. The only work he could get was as a laboureron a poorly run building site on the grimmest outskirts of Truro. âIt was such a bleak winter â waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write,â he adds, citing Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences.
In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Woods spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. Nevertheless, it is, appropriately for an album about home, somewhere youâll want to spend a while. Life here proceeds at a graceful pace grounded by Woodsâs deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet as he delivers the sort of meticulously written lunar wisdom worthy of Lambchopâs Kurt Wagner, or the tidy yet revelatory koans of Silver Jewsâ David Berman.
Written, recorded and produced by Woods from his South London home and childhood bedroom in Truro, it was mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding), who provided additional production.
On Grace & Dignityâs origins lie in winter 2020 when Woods lost his job in lockdown and moved back to his parentsâ house. The only work he could get was as a laboureron a poorly run building site on the grimmest outskirts of Truro. âIt was such a bleak winter â waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write,â he adds, citing Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences.
In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Woods spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. Nevertheless, it is, appropriately for an album about home, somewhere youâll want to spend a while. Life here proceeds at a graceful pace grounded by Woodsâs deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet as he delivers the sort of meticulously written lunar wisdom worthy of Lambchopâs Kurt Wagner, or the tidy yet revelatory koans of Silver Jewsâ David Berman.
Written, recorded and produced by Woods from his South London home and childhood bedroom in Truro, it was mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding), who provided additional production.
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On Grace & Dignityâs origins lie in winter 2020 when Woods lost his job in lockdown and moved back to his parentsâ house. The only work he could get was as a laboureron a poorly run building site on the grimmest outskirts of Truro. âIt was such a bleak winter â waist-deep in mud digging holes and rolling out turf on top of building waste, really grim stuff, which became the backdrop to the stories I was trying to write,â he adds, citing Raymond Carver, Lydia Davis and Richard Hugo as influences.
In among the personal reflections on loss of innocence and inferiority, Woods spins subtly interweaving narratives about survival, desperate acts of violence, loss and the limitations of community in the face of rapacious gentrification. Nevertheless, it is, appropriately for an album about home, somewhere youâll want to spend a while. Life here proceeds at a graceful pace grounded by Woodsâs deep voice, which seems to resonate from his feet as he delivers the sort of meticulously written lunar wisdom worthy of Lambchopâs Kurt Wagner, or the tidy yet revelatory koans of Silver Jewsâ David Berman.
Written, recorded and produced by Woods from his South London home and childhood bedroom in Truro, it was mixed by Ali Chant (Perfume Genius, Aldous Harding), who provided additional production.
