Dead Meadow – Feathers
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Feathers Dead Meadow Release: February 22, 2005 Matador Records |
Jason Simon (guitar, vocals), Steve Kille (bass, sitar), Stephen McCarty (drums), and Cory Shane (guitar) have once again taken a step back into 1970, a time when Sabbath ruled.
Call it dinosaur rock, call it stoner rock. You can call it whatever term condones droned, dreamy, spacey, fuzzy, rock-n-roll and it fits. Lost with out their Dunlop Wah, Dead Meadow slowly murmur their way through a frequency of pure thick analog psychedelic rock music. A broad spectrum Feathers is not. No matter, it still sounds pretty sweet.
Usually I don’t like this type of thing. When obvious references to Hendrix, Floyd, and Sabbath can be made I just pull out the real thing. Yet, listening deeper to Feathers can draw a lot more than the obvious. I’ve heard various shoegazing suggestions, Brit-pop, a bit of Bends era Radiohead, maybe even Swervedriver inspirations. One surprisingly weird vocal tone on Stacy’s Song sounds a lot like Beck. For whatever reason Meadow decided to pigeon hole themselves into the garage, stoner, etc… genre with warranty to span a less gimmicky arena. The reason I say this? You can’t buy a book by its cover but you can definitely make a near precise evaluation of what Dead Meadow wants to sound like by any of theirs.
Borrow Feathers off a friend. You may be surprised by Dead Meadow’s depth of insight, you may not. It’s worth a listen.
Not a big fan of Dead Meadow. I bought their album Shivering King and Others and was not impressed with the droned monotone guitar…I don’t know. Haven’t heard feathers yet.
I, actually, enjoyed “Shivering King and Others” for the most part. There are some duds, but overall I liked the sound they produce. It’s really heavy sounding and dense. The only thing I didn’t like so much, but have grown to accept it, are the vocals which end up sometime soounding like a horn in the background. I’ll be checking out “Feathers” when it comes out…but after I get the Red Sparowes release.
you obviously haven’t done enough acid.
Best comment ever!