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Where the group used to sound like a bulldozer demolishing rubble, now they're more like a snow plow gently shoving away a winter wonderland. It's still good, but isn't stoner rock supposed to sound destructive?
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For Dead Meadow this is growth of a kind, and it is certainly a move away from their old sound. Whether this is positive growth or not depends on what you want from the band, but as a soundtrack to getting well and truly caned, you can't go far wrong.
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Under The RadarOld Growth never quite achieves the glory of its predecessor. [Winter 2008, p.81]
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UncutThis fifth album gets progressively less fuzztoned and more overtly tuneful as it progresses. [Mar 2008, p.85]
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'Till Kingdom Come' is really the only song that stands apart from the pack, thanks to its strident guitar leads and orchestral underpinnings. The rest of the tracks, while persuasively put, come and go with an effect that’s distantly brooding at best.
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Q MagazineOld Growth blurs mearly into a long yawn. [Mar 2008, p.103]