Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow
by Daniel Cressey
published: 2 / 10 / 2006
Label:
Xemu Records
Format: CD
intro
Unashamedly retro psychedelic rock on influential American rockers' Dead Meadow's 1998 debut album, which appears in a new remixed and remastered version
If you happened to be drinking with a stranger and the subject of music came up no one would fault you for excusing yourself and escaping through the toilet window if your new-found friend proclaimed their love of "heavy psychedelic rock inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien." Unfortunately you will have missed a trick. Despite this potentially unappetising description Dead Meadow – for all their faults – are far from justifying a flight through the urinals. A deliciously retro, unashamed celebration of shuddering guitar riffs and fuzzed out vocals. So six years after its first showing the band’s debut self-titled album has been remixed, remastered and rereleased. And if there are Tolkien influences here they are pretty well buried. Putting this on the stereo is like owning an audio time machine, going back into the past as in some cheesy movie to right past wrongs. As every laid-back, hypnotic slab of rock drifts out of the speakers another music travesty disappears from memory. There goes Take That, washed away on a tsunami of juddering bass. There goes So Solid Crew, blow away by a hurricane of wacked out, near incomprehensible lyrics. Maybe, just maybe, if we all listen to this together, Lilly Allen will cease to exist. And that, surely, is reason enough to buy this.
Track Listing:-
1 Sleepy Silver Door2 Indian Bones
3 Dragonfly
4 Lady
5 Greensky Greenlake
6 Beyond the Fields We Know
7 At the Edge of the Wood
8 Rocky Mountain High
9 Untitled
Band Links:-
http://www.deadmeadow.com/https://www.facebook.com/DeadMeadowOfficial
http://www.songkick.com/artists/471526-dead-meadow
Label Links:-
http://www.xemu.com/https://www.facebook.com/Xemu-Records-160065924031794/
https://twitter.com/XemuRecords
http://xemu.tumblr.com/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtf60U-J0KC1eQLbfgNU6yQ
live reviews |
|
Firebug, Leicester, 2/10/2013 |
|
| Anthony Strutt is excited by American three-piece Dead Meadow's psychedelic blues in a deafening show at the Firebug in Leicester |
| Babylon, Ottawa, 3/7/2004 |
favourite album |
|
Dead Meadow (2013) |
|
| Richard Lewis reflects on much acclaimed Washington DC psychedelic/stoner rockers Dead Meadow's 2000 eponymous debut album, which has just been reissued |
soundcloud
reviews |
|
The Nothing They Need (2018) |
|
| Washington DC’s psych rockers Dead Meadow breeze through album number eight like nothing has changed at all |
| Warble Womb (2013) |
| Old Growth (2008) |
most viewed articles
current edition
Cliff Richard and The Shadows - CommentSuzi Quatro - Photoscapes
Beach Boys - Film
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - Peter Perrett Part One
Garfunkel and Garfunkel Jr. - Interview
Eagles - Co-op Live, Manchester, 7/6/2024
Sukie Smith - Interview
T Bone Burnett - Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago, 19/11/2024
George Harrison - Living in the Material World
Wreckless Eric - Interview
most viewed reviews
current edition
Morgan Wade - ObsessedBleachers - Bleachers
Snow Patrol - The Forest Is The Guide
Slambovian Circus of Dreams - A Good Thief Tips His Hat
Hannah Wicklund - The Prize
Camila Cabello - C.XOXO
Ashley Reaks - The Body Blow of Grief
Jack Savoretti - Miss Italia
Shaznay Lewis - Pages
Charli XCX - Brat
Pennyblackmusic Regular Contributors
Adrian Janes
Amanda J. Window
Andrew Twambley
Anthony Dhanendran
Benjamin Howarth
Cila Warncke
Daniel Cressey
Darren Aston
Dastardly
Dave Goodwin
Denzil Watson
Dominic B. Simpson
Eoghan Lyng
Fiona Hutchings
Harry Sherriff
Helen Tipping
Jamie Rowland
John Clarkson
Julie Cruickshank
Kimberly Bright
Lisa Torem
Maarten Schiethart