• Record Label: Matador
  • Release Date: Feb 5, 2008
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 17
  2. Negative: 0 out of 17
  1. Stylistically there is a different kind of freedom (there is even a nod to garage rock on ‘The Queen Of All Returns’) that seems less about affectation or indulgence and more about adhering to the spirit of each individual song, making for harder-fought but longer lasting rewards.
  2. It’s as entertaining and theatrical as the music is rough and compelling.
  3. With cleaner, more refined production quality to boot, Growth is an interesting and fully realized progression.
  4. In full flight of one of their frequent psychedelic crescendos, Dead Meadow are among rock's most eloquently deafening joys.
  5. Mojo
    80
    Old Growth has the primeval, fuzzed-out power of the trio's earlier albums, but with a new clarity and groove. [Mar 2008, p.113]
  6. In spite of some indistinct songwriting, Old Growth on the whole still has the power to alter minds, musically or otherwise.
  7. For the first time, Dead Meadow have created something for everyone, not just fans of one aspect of their sound. While that might piss off those very same fans, it is for the greater good.
  8. 70
    Their new songs are sunnier and jumpier than 2005's dirgeful "Feathers." [Mar 2008, p.100]
  9. lot of people may be upset by the departure from the extraordinary songs that were made in Dead Meadow and Shivering King and Others. I know I was at first. But this is an album about patience, the kind of patience that takes a forest to form.
  10. For the most part, though, Old Growth is exactly what this band has always done.
  11. Nearly everything else on Old Growth consists of middling blues-rock with impressive soloing but negligible heft.

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