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vhf#28 Pelt Max Meadows CD
Max Meadows is the third full-length release by Virginia trio Pelt. Recorded all
over the place in studio, rehearsal, and live settings, Max Meadows combines the
jaw-dropping downer song-craft heard on the Brown Cyclopaedia CD with the
free-formisms heard on the follow-up Burning/Filament/Rockets CD (on Econogold).
Use of a wide variety of unusual instruments, including those of their own design, came into full bloom here and gives Pelt a sound very much removed from other (?) groups working this side of the street. "Outside Listening" and "Sun Is Standing"
send out lengthy waves of bliss via electric guitar, proving that music can be both
ethereal and gritty at the same time. "Hippy War Machine" organizes the mass
percussion heard on those old Amon Duul LP's (that everyone seems to suddenly
"like") and backs it with a powerful drone. "Dismal Falls" serves as a
fitting coda to such an exhaustive listen, with its eerie, melodic banjo and bowed
cymbals. 7 tracks, 74 Minutes. CD $9
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