Jason Simon

As the voice of the celebrated psychedelic trio Dead Meadow since 1998, Jason Simon has helped craft many captivating, hook-laden songs while the band has enjoyed a successful, highly regarded decade-plus career. Simon's "wispy tenor" and "mystical lyricism" have been called "mesmerizing" by Rolling Stone while his distorted axe riffs and wah-wah pedal effects have been said to "ooze early '70s psych-rock power and experimentalism" by Spin. With his solo debut, Simon takes listeners through an acoustic wormhole by using the palette of spacey atmospherics, head-nodding prog-blues and pop sensibilities of his main band and painting in subtler shades.

Recorded by Simon and Dead Meadow bassist Steve Kille, mixed by Dave Schiffman (The Jayhawks, Johnny Cash) and mastered by Pete Lyman (Bloc Party, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez) at Infrasonic Sound, Simon's first solo recording is at once stimulating, shadowy, speculative and spellbinding. Each of the album's nine original tracks tell their own unique story while the haunting cover of Bob Dylan's "As I Went Out One Morning" -- featuring lyrics detailing "a man who offers a hand to a woman in chains, but realizes that she wants more than he is offering, and that "she meant to do [him] harm" -- offers a tempting tale all its own.