Dead Meadow?s ?Feathers? comes recommended to those who like their heavy psych burnt and sprawling. The post Sabbath/Blue Cheer sludge of past works is still there, but a respect for space rock titans like Hawkwind and even the melodic side of early Blue Oyster Cult pervades some of the more driving, dreamier numbers. In other places a reverence for the charred space of Crazy Horse surfaces--nothing new really--but these gents inject the epic low end throb with a liquid shoegaze filter that makes everything suitably gelatinous and not of this world in the end. A neat trick, indeed. A Telescopes fan will likely find some aural love among the swaying echo-drenched melodies of ?Let it All Pass,? yet there?s still enough moments that approach the trance blues sludge wonders of 2003?s ?Shivering King and Wonder? to keep everyone suitably dazed. Bardo Pond fans and those who enjoy studying the same crack in the ceiling for extended periods should like this. 7/10 -- Lee Jackson (8 June, 2005)