Dead Meadow

“The Whirlings”

scum stats: lathe-cut limited to 100 hand-numbered copies

Here’s what the label write-up says…

"Jason from Dead Meadow sent me a text at 4pm one day and asked “Hey, any chance you could make us some tour singles in the next 10 days?” and I, having nothing all that pressing (get it? Get it? :-( ) going on that night said “I'll make them all in the next 24 hours”. And I did it. 22.5 hours to psychedelic dip paint the discs, die cut the covers on my grandma-approved Cricut scrapbooking cutter (a process that took almost 6 hours... those things are slow), design/print the clear labels, cut the 4.5 min stoner rock jam (an outtake from the Dead Meadow classic album, Feathers), and package them all up. 100 copies made, and we only have 50 copies available. The rest went with Dead Meadow on their US tour.”

Man, this shit slays. Although I’m confused, as “The Whirlings” is featured on “Shivering King and Others” the DM album from 2003 while “Feathers” (from which this is supposed to be an outtake) is from 2005. The lathe-cut version is miles ahead of the previously released version. Although, the clip from Soundcloud sounds different than my lathe-cut. Pretty sure this is meant to be 45rpm, but i guess it could be 33rpm? Yeah…it’s probably 33rpm. But damn, this thing at 45rpm totally sounds like their first album. That’s the best they ever were…but are still pretty sweet afterwards.

I could listen to this band endlessly. Rubbery psychedelia for days. Relaxing and motivating all at the same time.