Dead Meadow

Artist: Dead Meadow

Album: Old Growth

Label: Matador

Genre: Rock, Stoner Rock, Psychedelic Rock

Comments: I got excited when I saw the Matador sticker (they put out Cat Power, The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo and The Cave Singers) but this didn't really pull me in. Mellow, plodding rock has a definite mood, but it doesn't elaborate much on it. Good , confident guitar works on the dirty blues-rock with a dreamy psychedelic sound. It could grow on me.
From Matador:
"Dead Meadow met in the DC punk/indie scene, though their music draws from more faraway sources. The band formed in the fall of 1998 from the ashes of local bands The Impossible Five and Colour, when singer-guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille, and drummer Mark Laughlin set out to fuse their love of early 70's hard rock and 60’s psychedelia with their love of writers J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft."