The Woods is the seventh studio album by American rock band Sleater-Kinney.

The Woods was produced by Dave Fridmann and recorded from November 2004 to December 2004 at Tarbox Road Studios in Cassadaga, New York.

Club, described the album as "a quasi-psychedelic, classic-rock-sounding epic",[24] while Keith Harris of The Village Voice praised Corin Tucker's vocals.

[25] Less positively, Q awarded the album two stars out of five, finding it "disappointing" when compared to their earlier work.

[26] The Woods appeared at number four in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2005.