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Haunting, gorgeously inward-looking, yet laced with memorable melodies, Feathers is Dead Meadow's strongest work ever and an early contender for one of 2005's best records.
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Feathers is a thousand times more focused and mature than [Shivering King], and it's all for the better.
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A gorgeously euphonic skull-crusher.
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Feathers can be at times hypnosis-inducing. The effect of this hypnosis is that many of the unique moments on the album feel like dream states you aren’t sure actually happened.
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It's one thing to treat your influences with reverence, eyes and goals fixed on a past that brought them to you. It's another to fold them into the present, into the elusive omnipresence of the moment. And how Dead Meadow pulls this off on Feathers is an amazing thing to hear.
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Feathers may not have the heft of Dead Meadow's other albums, but it's easily its most listenable and satisfying from end to end.
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Alternative PressIt's not quite the masterpiece 2003's Shivering King And Others was, but it still knocks the piss out of [the Grateful Dead's] American Beauty. [Apr 2005, p.124]
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The end result is what Ride's "Nowhere" would've sounded like had it been produced by Frank Zappa in 1972.
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If you love The Icarus Line and Comets On Fire, and wonder what a record exploring the expansive middle ground between the two outfits might sound like, look/listen no further.
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New Musical Express (NME)Mesmerisingly beautiful. [2 Apr 2005, p.50]
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MojoScales new heights of bong-loaded majesty. [May 2005, p.108]
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It practically goes without saying that fans of guitar heavy psychedelia and mind-altering substances will find plenty to enjoy here.
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This is a subdued, lying in bed and staring at the ceiling kind of album, and coming after the majestic peaks and valleys of Shivering King and Others it initially feels a little disappointing.
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There are enough interesting things going on throughout the album to keep it fresh for several listens.
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MagnetIt would seem the sun has risen over Dead Meadow and the flowers are finally in bloom. [#67, p.90]
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The disc essentially finds the now-quartet cleaning up and living right and letting the world see them as they are; their tracks are marked by much clean-fingered guitar playing (the added guitar meaning there's six-stringing back-and-forth) and only a recreational use and abuse of wah.
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Space-rock aficionados will dig the zero-G atmosphere, but it meanders through excessive pockets better left unexplored.
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UncutThe fact that Feathers never really goes anywhere is beside the point. [May 2005, p.106]
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Under The RadarWhile they might not track as much rich sonic mud over these tracks as they have on past albums, it doesn't hurt for a band to clean up every once in a while. [#9]
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Paste MagazineAn elongated, spacey drone of acidic riffage and flickering psych-rock ambience. [Apr/May 2005, p.135]
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FilterFeathers isn't a bad album, just one without a discernable look--or hook. [#14, p.99]
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They've built upon the calm, dreamy songcraft that highlighted previous efforts, but the risky sludgefeasts have lost much of their psychedelic bluster, sounding instead like mellowed-out Mudhoney B-sides.
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Q MagazineToo much of Feathers sounds like extended noodling jams. [May 2005, p.121]
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