Dead Meadow - Shivering King And Others

It's my belief that there's a positive correlation between how much a band is clearly influenced by The Jesus & Mary Chain and Spacemen 3 and how good the quality of their music is. Dead Meadow understand this concept and with "Shivering King And Others", my favorite of their albums to date, they put the theory in to action. For Dead Meadow it's all about the distortion and walls of feedback that do their best to hide the decent melody underneath, much like the influences that they so clearly wear on their sleeves. How they set themselves apart however is their lack of desire to stop when any producer would tell them the song is long enough. Take "I Love You Too" for example. That song could easily be trimmed down to about three minutes but they know that practice would make them come off as any other run of the mill drone band. So they keep going, falling further in to distortion and chaos as they go. It's great music to relax to and just wash in the sound and it's great to pay heavy attention to and notice every little chord they hit.

Dead Meadow - I Love You Too
Dead Meadow - The Whirlings
Dead Meadow - Me And The Devil Blues

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