Dead Meadow - Shivering King & Others
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Artist: Dead MeadowEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2003-06-03
Music Label: Matador Records
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Free Music Review: Molten sonic lava crashing into waiting waves
Hit: 5 Stars
I heard "Feathers" first, and have backordered "Got Live," so in the meantime, "Shivering King" will fit nicely. As listeners seem to agree, this one's denser in tone, perhaps murkier in vocals and definitely in production, and it moves like a lumbering beast especially during the first half. The success of the first six or seven songs depends on your mood. This is not background music, and I doubt if I'd want to wake up with this cranked up unless I wanted to blare the aural equivalent of a hangover.
But, if you're ready for it, SK&Others (as with Dead Meadow's other work) takes its time to burrow deep into your reveries. It's carefully layered and the arrangements belie any stoner stereotype: this is smart music for smart people. Dead Meadow as always moves only to its own beat--it presents songs that are in no rush to get wherever they'll eventually rumble, shove, traipse, and meander. In fact, I wish the instrumental track (#5) was much longer, as this makes a welcome respite from the thick mire that the band brews up and plunges you in relentlessly for the first half.
By song seven or definitely eight, the acoustic guitars signal an uplift in the delivery that's well-timed. From this point what was a four-star album turns five-stars, for this combines--reminiscent of moments on "Feathers," Led Zep III's folk-meets-metal-meets-blues-meets psychedelic melange. The last part of this album stretches out and carries you along. (4.5 stars, but I have to round up for credit for the fine ending to this album that lifts it high above its promising beginning.)
The visual equivalent for this album: picture the volcanoes on Hawai'i's Big Island as they rumble and crash into the Pacific, molten lava hissing and spewing as it ripples out in terrifyingly beautiful waves.
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