All Them Witches
Dying Surfers Meets His Maker
The Tennessee outfit, who had garnered much praise for their first two albums, retreated to a cabin on the outskirts of a town in their home state called Pigeon Forge - home of Dolly Parton's Appalachian-themed Dollywood - to work on their third. They emerged five days later with 'Dying Surfer Meets His Maker', their first for New West Records, a label known for its Americana and what pigeon-holers call alt-country releases.
It continues down the psychedelic path of its predecessor 'Lightning at the Door' ('El Centro' is an eight-and-a-half-minute White Manna-style freakout), while keeping some of the steamy, swampy blues rock of their debut 'Our Mother Electricity' ('Dirt Preachers' is a stomper), but it is what they have added that makes this album so good a cinematic outlook which serves as a celebration of the large landscape of the US as songs flow into one another like the changing view from a car window and a vulnerability, world-weariness and melancholy which gives the album real depth and substance.
LP - White vinyl LP is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with digital download card.
Tracklist
1. Call Me Star
2. El Centro
3. Dirt Preachers
4. This Is Where It Falls Apart
5. Mellowing
6. Open Passageways
7. Instrumental 2 (Welcome To The Caveman Future)
8. Talisman
9. Blood and Sand / Milk and Endless Waters