Woody Whatever is actually a pair of brothers from Ohio, who’ve got a hell of a lot of cd-r releases out on their own Agriculture Records, but this is the band’s first release on another label. They sound like a bedroom version of the early Kleenex Girl Wonder records, but unlike 98% of the lo-fi bedroom pop bands out there, they actually have a pretty high ratio of quality songs in their repertoire. Sure, there are some throwaway tracks, but they’re not as common as they are with so many others. One major difference between this record and the previous ones (besides the noticeable improvement in sound quality) is that the songs on here seem to be a bit more worked out, but at the same time, they’re also longer on average. Some of their previous records would cram over twenty songs in 36½ minutes (if they even made it that long), but on this, we only get eleven. At times (”Just Enough Rope For You” and “I’ve Been Afraid”, for example), the songs suffer from the additional length, but for the most part they work well. This record is a bit better than their earlier ones in a few ways, but at the same time not as instantly gratifying. MTQ=8/11