Thursday, March 5, 2009

Dead Meadow - Feathers [2005]


These guys are probably one of my favourite modern day bands. They met in the DC punk/indie scene, though their music draws from more faraway sources. The band formed in the fall of 1998 from the ashes of local bands The Impossible Five and Colour, when singer-guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille, and drummer Mark Laughlin set out to fuse their love of early 70’s hard rock and 60’s psychedelia with their love of writers J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.

Their sound fuller without losing its live essence, the band grew to encompass everything from ambient guitar drones to surging psych-funk sludge, blues-folk tunes to barbiturate space-rock, and some southern slow boogie thrown in for good measure.

Although all their studio releases are very good, this is my favourite. Enjoy!

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

thankyou. i,ve got a dodgy sounding bootleg somewhere, looking forward to hearing them clearly.
steve.

Anonymous said...

On the 1/1/2001 they recorded a session for the late great John Peel. The 5 tracks were
Dusty Morning
Good Moaning
Drifting
Wondering Thunder
Untitled
www.myspace.com/deadmeadowpeelsessions