On new album Warble Womb (Xemu), Dead Meadow continues going its own way with a thick, dense sound that includes traces of folk, metal, ’60s rock, swampy blues and murky psychedelia. Hints of Howlin’ Wolf and Neil Young also go drifting through the mix from time to time. The long hours the band puts into its music is evident on every track of Warble Womb, an album that took three years to put together. The songs were shaped in Dead Meadow’s home studio and involved experiments with new sounds and recording techniques. Guitarist Jason Simon will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Dead Meadow feature.
Simon: Stacy Sutherland was the guitarist for the 13th Floor Elevators. He is one of my favorite players. I feel Stacy was really the musical glue that kept that band together. During its existence and in the years that have followed, he has often been overshadowed by Roky Erickson’s powerful fire-and-brimstone vocals and the acid-fueled spirituality of Tommy Hall, yet I feel he is increasingly getting his due. His playing was deeply rooted in the Texas blues, yet he pushed into all sorts of echo-driven psychedelia. I always dig players where you can feel the push and a pull of a tradition being stretched to all new dimensions.
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