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"Tinyfolk’s new album Bill is the most epic lo-fi album I’ve ever heard. For the uninitiated Tinyfolk comes from the mind of Russ Woods (and sometimes Meghan Lamb) and is from Indiana. On occasion Russ’s voice reminds me of Daniel Johnston, but his standard instrument of choice is a baritone ukulele. As Tinyfolk he writes quirky, cute songs with a dash of longing behind all of them.

It's a record about coming to terms with unfortunate circumstances. I've had a lot of dreams about fires, trains, and mountains. I think of how even in the most desolate of times during the winters of discontent, i am still able to keep myself warm with passion, mostly through the perseverance I've discovered through the art of composing and creating even if it means going broke.

This is sort of the last of an era before Tinyfolk turned into the bastard mutant it is today.

These are rainy-day pop songs and the production is all pretty rough and lo-fi (though nowhere near as lo-fi as my early early tape stuff).

I released this as a crayon colored cdr in the summer of 2007. I sent each out to people who asked and then some people sent a few dollars or letters back. It was a donation system, I suppose. I made 75 copies and then got tired of coloring the same thing over and over, so I deemed it "out of print". Plus, I'm always making more music, so it was about time.

here's some press-

Last summer we did a 45 day tour with Dustin and the Furniture. Starting in Atlanta and stretching all the way to Santa Barbara, up the west coast to the Pacific Northwest, and back through the Midwest to our home region of the Northeast. We made friends last summer that we will have forever. These songs are for them.

Songs about climbing a tree and then looking down at the world and understanding its intricacies and wonder and then climbing back down from the tree and trying to integrate what you've learned into real life in the real forest.

'This is sometimes a riverbed' is a loose concept album exploring themes of mental health and the cycle of emotions-- how sometimes one can be full up with drunk wonder and productivity, brimming with hope and beauty, and how that river can run dry. It's about friends, and how we help each other.

This is a collaboration! Tiny folk sing and secretive owls make electronic noises and secret owls sing and tiny folk harp on guitars and twang on mandolins.

Will we be safe? Will this terrifying team be stopped?

Gentlemen, hide your daughters!
Gentlewomen, hide your other daughters!

The secret folk are coming! The secret folk are coming!

The first album proper as Tinyfolk (not including the Cat Album). Features contributions from Matty Pop Chart and Erin Tobey. Here's a review (in French):

OK. So forget everything I wrote before!
These are the tracks from the split I'm doing with Redbear., and James Eric.
I put them up now because they're the first songs I've written in months and I'm very pleased with these songs and recordings now that I've re-recorded them.
All wolf noises, instruments, and vocals by me - Ryan

New EP. CLLCT exclusive.

Here's a review from Foggy Ruins of Time:

What is Tinyfolk now? The days of “Love Is A Thing” are far-gone and the new EP from Russ Woods and Meghan Lamb, Jack’s Broth, feels like a watershed for Tinyfolk, a change is in the wind.

A 4-tracks EP originally released in 2006. Four songs with collective themes. Guitar, ukulele, toy piano, cardboard boxes drum sets, recorders and grumbles. Most songs written in broken english.

Here's an exclusive CLLCT release and my first "LP", although it compiles material that was never meant to end up together on a record in the first place, so I don't think I really consider it that. Here's a list of the sessions these tracks come from :

Track 1 - Bathroom Sessions, April 2007, recorded at home.
Track 3 - 2007 Demos, Summer of 2007, recorded at home.

"PJ uses this little piece-of-crap guitar to make some of the most gorgeous sounds I’ve ever heard."

-Russ Woods aka Tinyfolk (http://greenclothesmusic.com/2007/12/03/super-famicom/)

1. In The Snow
2. Knots
3. Strange Heart
4. Dead Money
5. No Secrets
6. Bad Blow
7. Red-crowned Bird
8. Pip is Dead
9. Red Hair
10. Autumn Fog
11. You Were There (In The Snow)