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: Four CDs‘ worth of Dylan and the Band recording in the basement of the Band’s Woodstock home. One can hear that these songs were never intended for release. They were playing and singing them simply to please themselves and have a good time and that energy comes shining through. The songs seem so traditional yet so singular and new at the same time, a very difficult thing to achieve. They call to mind a far off and distant America of the past yet never seem dated or lose their poignancy.
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