We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Volume III

by The Dead West

supported by
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. Paying supporters also get unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app.
    Purchasable with gift card

      name your price

     

1.
COINTELPRO 09:25
2.
3.
Bert & Anne 08:47
4.
Sunshine 07:04
5.
MK ULTRA 08:03
6.
7.
8.
January Snow 08:30
9.

about

9 track 70 minute journey through avant-garde, psych, krautrock, garage rock, space and more. Made at home.

"Well, I certainly didn't expect this. The previous EP is a refreshing blast of sonic revelry that clears out the cobwebs but The Dead West's third album is one of those proper albums that blokes talk about in excited whispers, sat at their regular table in the pub. There's the initial glee at trumping their peers with something new, something exciting and then the struggle to articulate what the new and exciting elements actually are. So, what do we get? Well, there's dusty, widescreen epics, haunted, cracked ballads, fuzzed-up folk, psychedelic romps... it sounds like it shouldn't work but it does because the songs are so good, and where other bands might self-consciously hold themselves back, The Dead West don't – they are gloriously over-ambitious and, this is the best part, match their aims with the execution on Volume III. There are breath-taking shifts within songs, moments of pure atmosphere, and most importantly rather than three individuals (whose solo work is elsewhere on this site), it sounds like a proper band.

It seems a shame to give too many secrets away in this review; part of the joy is the first time discovery and then, listening to a second, third and twelfth time, thinking 'I can't believe they did that'. The sinister Lanegan blues that opens “Cointelpro” would be adequate for most bands; they would decide to take the piece up-river into the troubling, nightmarish territory that The Dead West go. There are no shackles here; no manager demanding ten percent of nothin', no record label fat cat skimming the cream off the top, no one to tell them they can't do it. They want to do it, they can do it and by jiminy it's a damn good job they make of it. I've known The Dead West for a long time, we've shared the odd bottle of wine and recording session; heck, we've even been the inarticulate blokes in the pub, and I didn't suspect they were capable of this. Download this, and then take all your other records to the charity shops; you won't be needing them anymore." - Jeremy Bye.

credits

released December 18, 2011

Stephen Benson : Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Sound Collage, Drums, Violin, Theremin, Drones & Vocal.

Marc Gillen : Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Sound Collage, Drums, Drones & Vocal.

David Thompson : Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Bass, Sound Collage, Theremin, Harmonica, Mandolin, Drones & Vocal.

Produced by The Dead West & Alastair Popple.

TOR016.

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Treehouse Orchestra Recordings Cumbria, UK

Collective of artists and musicians based in Carlisle, Cumbria. Alt. rock, ambient, folk, avant garde, pop and more.

contact / help

Contact Treehouse Orchestra Recordings

Streaming and
Download help

Report this album or account

If you like Volume III, you may also like: