Dead: Alive!

Whilst I was buying the latest Dead album, I picked this one up, as I'd neglected to buy it when it came out.

I've seen Dead live quite a few times, and they're always very good. This album captures them well. It recorded around the time The Laughing Shadow came out, and that album was one of my favourites.

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Dead - Memory Jar

I always look forward to a new Dead album.

I've enjoyed how the past three studio albums in particular have gone down new musical avenues and on this one they have pared everything back to pure, raw sounds, often unaccompanied, beautifully produced. Kind of avant-garde, experimental, musique concrète, dark ambient...I don't know enough about the naming conventions of that sort of stuff, to be honest, but there's elements of all of that here.

The perfect album to sit and have a good, hard chin-stroke to.

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