Pitchfork

It's not easy getting everyone from Dark Meat in that 250 x 150 pixel photo to the left of this text; I'm pretty sure that's like one pixel per member. Seriously, they're a 17-piece band or something ridiculous, from Athens, Ga., and they play a correspondingly epic brand of Southern rock'n'roll. "Dead Man" comes from Universal Indians, which we reviewed early last year; the album has just been issued in expanded form by Vice. The track begins with some simple guitar chords and tambourine but builds to a horn-drenched finale with every inch of master tape saturated with sound. You can almost see them swaying in unison-- beer bottles are getting smashed, and somewhere a truck is about to get driven into tree. "Dead Man" is a reckless kind of noise.

MP3:> Dark Meat: "Dead Man"
[from the expanded edition of Universal Indians; out now on Vice]