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: I am a fan of the bizarre and weird, and few things are truly as bizarre as many of the stories found in the Old Testament. The great R. Crumb deftly illustrates all 50 chapters of the Book Of Genesis with an eye to the strangeness of it all. From diverging creation stories and the great flood to an ever jealous and vengeful God ready to smite, this book reads like the most surreal graphic novel you’ve ever picked up.
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