Dark Meat Truce Opium

• The Faint Smell Of Moss
• Future Galaxies
• Flaps
• No One Was Here
• When Shelter Came
• Last Of The Frontiersmen
• Yonderin'
• Song Of The New Year

There are many editions of the Athens, Ga.-based collective Dark Meat, one of which expands to Dark Meat Vomit Lasers Family Band, an assemblage of 18 different musicians that includes members of Gnarls Barkley and Of Montreal. For the band's second album, Truce Opium, Dark Meat has trimmed itself down to half the members, switched labels, and produced a psych-rock album that combines the group’s love of the Velvet Underground, MC5, and Crazy Horse with Eastern acoustic instruments, group chants, and throat singing. Looks like they had to lose nine people just to fit the sitar in the tour van.

Abstract by Leah Urbom