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On their third album, Shivering King and Others, Dead Meadow continues to prove just how apt their name is, crafting vast guitar epics that have all the beauty and strangeness of a frostbitten field at midnight. While both their self-titled debut and Howls From the Hills showed power and promise, they were still defined and confined by the heavy influence of forebears such as Zeppelin and Hendrix, as well as by contemporaries such as Bardo Pond. On this album -- which is also their Matador debut -- Dead Meadow seems to have found their own voice and pared their music down until it reflects nothing but their essence. The stunning opener, "I Love You Too," proves this immediately: based on a riff that's equally heavy and haunting, it unfolds over seven minutes, ebbing and flowing with squalling solos and Jason Simon's moody, reverb-cloaked vocals. The rest of the album follows suit, offering relatively concise, powerful rockers like "Bubbling Flower" and the title track; eerie, slow-burning ballads like "Everything's Going On" (which appears in a dramatically different form than it did on Howls From the Hills) and "Wayfarers All"; and chiming acoustic numbers like "Heaven" and "Good Moanin'." That the bulk of Shivering King and Others finds Dead Meadow operating in one of these three modes is far from disappointing, though, since the band's ideas and execution have come such a long way in just a few years. A spooky sleekness winds its way through even the album's most scorching rockers, coming to the fore on brief cuts like "She's Mine" and more expansive ones like the finale, "Raise the Sails." Bludgeoning and beautiful all at once, Shivering King and Others is Dead Meadow's finest work to date and the album that their fans always knew they had it in them to make. ~ Heather Phares
Recorded between August 2002 & January 2003.
Audio Mixers: Dead Meadow; Brendan Canty.
Recording information: Pirate House, Washington DC (08/2002-01/2003).
Photographer: Laura Heffington.
Dead Meadow: Jason Simon (vocals, guitar); Steve Kille (sitar, bass); Stephen McCarty (drums).
Spin (7/03, p.110) - "...Whenever their boggy groove pauses for a heavier-than-heaven guitar solo...it's like basking under a giant black light..." - Grade: B+
The Wire (5/03, p.74) - "...Impressive....Jason Simon has the combination of crushing guitar and gaseous voice down pat..."
Mojo (Publisher) (7/03, p.108) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...This surprisingly fresh-faced three-piece update the bluesy '70s rock blueprint without ever once falling into stoner rock clichT..." Shivering King And Others Music Shivering King And Others Music Review Purchase Shivering King And Others CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Porcupine Tree In Absentia CD (2002)
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There's a breed of (post-1980s) bands with the same degree of grand rock experimentalism as Pink Floyd and Yes, who simultaneously adhere to the concept of concise songwriting. Porcupine Tree is one such band--their sound is a balance of lush ambient ...
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| | Dead Meadow Feathers CD (2005)
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Dead Meadow's second release for Matador Records, FEATHERS shows a band hitting its stride. Jason Simon's high, moaning vocals and gothic-hippie poetry are only coloring for the overall sonic canvas, but the group's ability to make truly mesmerizing webs of heady, dual-guitar bliss has crystallized. Whether on ...
| | Dead Meadow CD (2001) Digipak
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In Dead Meadow's universe, the wah-wah pedal is just as important as the guitar itself, and both are clearly more important than any sort of vocals. In fact, at first listen, singer/guitarist Jason Simon's barely audible whine puts the band's eponymous debut in some jeopardy before it has a chance to get underway. Coupled with the all-too-sluggish haze through which early tracks "Sleepy Silver Door" and "Indian Bones" slowly ...
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| | Raft Of Dead Monkeys Thoroughley CD (2001)
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Raft of Dead Monkeys may take their name from a Saturday Night Live skit with Adam Sandler, but by no means are this Seattle four-piece's members your typical Sandler fans. These ex-Ninety Pound Wuss and Roadside Monument members take textured indie rock to a new level and then some. With Doug Lorig's flexible, yet ...
| | Fuzzbox Love Is A Slug: Complete BBC Sessions CD (2002) (Import) United Kingdom
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When a company is down to releasing Fuzzbox's BBC sessions, it's clear that the very bottom of the barrel is not too far off. An extremely short-lived sensation in their native U.K. whose U.S. profile was only slightly higher than that of baked beans on toast for breakfast, Fuzzbox were a gleefully prefab all-female quartet whose records were a sometimes compelling clash between inspired amateurism and slick production. On these 18 tracks, the slickness has been dispensed with, leaving only the amateurishness. It's not enough, unfortunately. Stripped of the glossy sheen of the original, their signature tune, "Love is the Slug," simply sounds echoey and drony, like a single by one of those early-'80s third-tier Manchester bands who were shunted off to the Factory Benelux label because they weren't good enough to be on the mother label. Even the a cappella "Bohemian Rhapsody" sounds dull-witted compared to the absolutely terrifying ...
| | Runaways Live In Japan CD (1977) (Import) United Kingdom
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This 1977 live album from the seminal hard-rocking girlband The Runaways boasts "You Drive Me Wild" and "All Right You Guys" among its 12 cuts.
Because the Runaways were much better known in Japan than the U.S., it stands to reason that their only live album was recorded in that country. This hard to find LP was available in the U.S. only as a Japanese import and sold for around ten to 12 dollars, which was a lot to pay for vinyl in the late '70s. But American Runaways fans who were willing to make that investment found a lot to admire about the album, which boasted superior sound quality (by '70s standards) and explosive, uninhibited versions of "You Drive Me Wild," "Cherry Bomb," "California Paradise," and other hard rock pearls. The original Runaways lineup (Joan Jett, Cherie Currie, Lita Ford, Jackie Fox, and Sandy West) was still in place, and the rockers' primary focus is on material from The Runaways and Queens of Noise. Holding nothing back, Ford is at her most metallic. Except for a handful of bootlegs, ...
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| | Mojave Ocean CD (2008)
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Sometimes called "Psychedelic Rock from the Other Side," Mojave Ocean is closer to "Trip Hop" than Hip Hop. The Vintage Keyboard Sounds seem to stagger from the pages of 70's Art Rock. Rotary Speakers Breathe the Foggy Blacklight Sound Waves from the Hammond Organ as the Minimoog Solo's circle Overhead in the Mellotron Clouds. An Electric Sitar finds ...
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