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DriveYourCarDownToTheSea · 04-02-2014, 08:37 PM

I'm close to doing my review of Cyclops Reap. Really!

In the meantime, another article on the trend. Listened to the Dead Meadow album mentioned in this article, might do a review of it later.

Psychedelic resurgence does Dead Meadow a world of good

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YOU DON’T NEED the assistance of mind-expanding pharmaceuticals to perceive that there is something of a psychedelic renaissance happening in music, albeit one that is mostly confined to the fringes—for now, at least. Its most visible proponent is probably Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, whose 2012 release Lonerism was hailed as that year’s best album by the likes of Rolling Stone, NME, and Filter. Consider also the success of Austin Psych Fest, which celebrates its seventh year in May with performances by the Black Angels, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Toy, and Temples, among many others. (Temples also plays Vancouver this week.)

Among the more established acts slated for that celebration of acid-washed genius is Dead Meadow. The group’s frontman, Jason Simon, says it’s heartening to see a resurgence of interest in the type of music that he and his bandmates have been exploring since Dead Meadow’s formation in Washington, D.C., in 1998.

“There’s a scene that would have been great to have had around when we started, but there was just nothing like that,” Simon says when the Straight calls him in Los Angeles, where he and his band are now based. “So it is really cool that after all these years, finally a scene came up that Dead Meadow fits into, at least more than any other scene—more than we ever did in the postpunk scene or the stoner-rock scene, which is what was there when we started. So it’s cool. And it is cool that young kids are into it. For us, it seems like there’s a whole new generation of kids that are just getting into Dead Meadow now, which is really great.”