Dead Meadow
Feathers
Matador
2005
Rating: 7 down pillows out of 10
On their second release for Matador (and fifth overall I believe), Washington DC’s Dead Meadow have yet again provided my ears with the glory of the riff-rock. On their previous record they took blended a lot of Black Sabbath and a little Pink Floyd to produce one of the better rock albums of the last few years. This go around, they flipped the equation, turning up the Pink Floyd and turning down the Black Sabbath in an effort to create the most perfect pot-smoking album ever and my favorite release of theirs so far (bear in mind, I’m also a bigger Floyd fan than Sabbath, but both are obviously awesome). This is a fantastic album that should not only appeal to their long-time fan base, but may even bring new folks into the fold. I could even see the jam-rock hippies getting into this, although it may be too slow and heavy to achieve that true “whirling dervish” spinning thing they do.
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