Music / rock

The nothing they need


Reviews (2)


AllMusic

2018

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Mark Deming

2018

"Dead Meadow's music has long suggested tunes from the Neil Young Songbook being played by a reefer-addled hard rock band slowly losing the will to live. (That's not an insult, by the way.) So it makes more than a bit of sense that the band's seventh studio album, 2018's The Nothing They Need, finds them sounding a little like Crazy Horse. (That's clearly a compliment, of course.) ... Dead Meadow sound as primal and potent as ever".


The line of best fit

d. 21. Mar. 2018

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Ian King

d. 21. Mar. 2018

"Dead Meadow mark twenty years of evergreen heavy psych rock ... Back in the late '90s and early '00s, along with other groups like Oneida and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Dead Meadow helped to bring indie cred and artistic edge to psychedelic rock, which in the 1990s had largely drifted into the realm of the outdated and unfashionable, stuck between the old guard and the new".