Dead Meadow - Dead Meadow

Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down.

Album Review by Ali Maloney | 12 Nov 2006
Album title: Dead Meadow
Artist: Dead Meadow
Label: Xemu Records
Scuzzed-out sludge rock that oozes weed smoke and acid flashbacks will either have you sitting unshaven, nodding your head out of time, or grabbing the hose to wash these filthy hippies down. This re-issue of Dead Meadow's first album from 2000 combines 70s hard rock - albeit in a wee bit more sinister guise - with lava-lamp 60s flavor and the end result is a delirious, but always safe, frolic though uncharted forests, possibly inhabited by trolls, and most definitely sprouting mushrooms, oh yes. The sound, especially the guitars, is very retro, sounding like some lost album from the era it harks back to, but at the same time, the arrangements can only have come from a knowledge of decades of post-psychedelic rock; touching upon folk, drone and absolute wah-wah pedal meltdown, but all the while remaining catchy. Every party needs a hallucinatory hippy album to finish things off mellow, and Dead Meadow might be just the come-down. [Ali Maloney]

Dead Meadow' is out on October 2. http://www.deadmeadow.com