Montreal's TUMBLEWEED DEALER Drags Bluesy Desert Rock Into The Swamp With New Album “Dark Green” Out February 2025

L-R - Jean-Baptiste Joubaud – Synths & Programming, Seb Painchaud – Bass & Guitars, Angelo Fata – Drums & Percussions

Photo Credit - PAULINE DELABORDE PHOTOGRAPHIE​

Montreal, Canada's Tumbleweed Dealer, the enigmatic musical project led by Sebastien Painchaud, is set to make a triumphant return with their highly anticipated fourth studio album, “Dark Green”. After an eight-year hiatus, the band is ready to unveil their most ambitious and genre-defying work to date, scheduled for release on February 7, 2025. “Dark Green" represents a significant evolution in Tumbleweed Dealer's sound, pushing the boundaries of their bluesy, desert-rock roots into uncharted territories. They comment on this evolution:

“Our first 2 albums created the color palette with which we paint. The third album showed that these colors can paint very different pictures. We didn’t need to be a stoner/psychedelic rock to still sound like us. On this latest album, we took all these different directions and pushed our music even further. We streamlined it into a unique experience that still maintained the original spirit of the band’s sound.”

The album's artwork, revealed today, captures the essence of the “Dark Green” experience. This visual representation sets the stage for the album's themes of nature, introspection, and the blurring lines between reality and imagination.

To give fans a taste of what's to come, Tumbleweed Dealer has released a tantalizing teaser for "Dark Green." This brief audio-visual snippet offers a glimpse into the lush, atmospheric soundscapes and intricate compositions that await listeners. Fans can expect an intricate blend of blues, math rock, post-rock, and various other influences, all woven together into a cohesive and immersive musical tapestry. It is recommended for fans of Camel, Toe, and Opeth.

Album Teaser is below:

Album Artwork and Tracklisting Details



Track Listing:​

1. A Distant Figure In The Fog (2:52)
2. Sparks Adrift In The Louisiana Nightsky (3:39)
3. A Plant That Thinks It’s Human (3:34)
4. Becoming One With The Bayou (3:19)
5. Dragged Across The Wetlands (2:56)
6. Dark Green (4:48)
7. Ghosts Dressed In Weeds (5:31)
8. Moss On The Mind (3:13)
9. Body Of The Bog (6:34)
10. A Soul Made Of Sludge (3:49)

Album Recording Credits:​

• All songs performed by: Tumbleweed Dealer
• All songs written by: Tumbleweed Dealer
• Produced by: Jean-Baptiste Joubaud
• Mixed by: Jean-Baptiste Joubaud
• Mastered by: Harris Newman
• Album Artwork by: Glenn Le Calvez

Album Band Line Up:​

Seb Painchaud – Bass & Guitars
Angelo Fata – Drums & Percussions
Jean-Baptiste Joubaud – Synths & Programming

Guest Musicians:​

Antoine Baril – Mellotron, Hammond Organ & Keyboards on tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9 & 10
Guillaume Audette – Wurlitzer, Rhodes and Church Organ on tracks 8 & 10
Jocelyn Couture – Trumpet & Flugel Horn on tracks 4, 5, 7 and 9
Loïc Roy-Turgeon – Trombone on tracks 4 and 5
Zach Strouse – Saxophone on track 6
And special guest star Ceschi Ramos as himself on track 7

More info:

Facebook.com/TumbleweedDealer

X.com/westernhorror

Instagram.com/tumbleweeddealer

Thanks to Asher Media PR for all of the details.

Tumbleweed Dealer - TDIII - Tokes, Hatred & Caffeine (Album Review)

Release date: November 21^st 2016. Label: Self Released. Format: DD

TDIII - Tokes, Hatred & Caffeine – Tracklisting

1.The Carnage Cosmic 01:33

2.Blue Crystalline Method (Minus Line O.D.) 02:16

3.Days Gone High 03:39

4.Widow's Weeds (From Spring To Mid-Autumn) 03:54

5.A Slowly Moving Cloud Of Vaporized Flesh 02:25

6.Bongwater Creek 03:45

7.Redneck Car Chase 03:29

8.Saloon Fight 04:08

9.Stung Into A Blissful Coma By A Swarm Of Heroin Filled Bees 03:32

10.Never Sober Again 02:58

11.First A Staredown, Then A Shootout 04:07

12.Voodoo Haze 03:36

Band Members:

Seb Painchaud - Guitars, Bass

Jean-Francois Richard - Drums

Jean-Baptiste Joubaud - Recording, Mix

Tom Waltz - Mastering

Alexandre Goulet - Visual Director

Review:

Tumbleweed Dealer’s third album – TDIII - Tokes, Hatred & Caffeine, sees the band opt for a more progressive and jazz rock feel compared to their previous albums. The band still exposes you to their familiar style of Doom/Psych/Stoner riffs with a Western soundtrack sensibility. It’s not their most assessable record but it can be classed as their most creative.

Opening track – The Cosmic Carnage – opens with a jazzy space rock interlude with some intelligent instrumental work leading the way. It only lasts ninety seconds or so but the band make clever use of that time with different layers of prog stoner based noise. It’s not as heavy as I would have liked but it’s a very compelling piece of instrumental rock.

Second track – Blue Crystalline Method (Minus Line O.D.) – is a heavier affair and one that long-time fans will enjoy the most. As Tumbleweed Dealer weave an intriguing concept with the proggish rhythms taking a backseat to the heavier spaced out sounds. The album starts offering brief glimpses into the bands earlier doomier sound.

Third track – Days Gone High – has a more direct approach with the riffs being played at a subtle pace. The instrumental work is once again restrained with brief moments of heavy psych rock bursting to become part of the action. There is a beautifully played acoustic guitar solo that sees the album starting to add a more western feel to the album.

Fourth track – Widow’s Weeds (From Spring To Mid-Autumn) carries on the western sounding vibes for one of the albums finest tracks. Tumbleweed Dealer plays a few different styles of music on this album. The album won’t appeal to everyone as Tumbleweed Dealer experiment with their sound throughout the album. It’s a very different album to their other albums and it’s not quite as heavy that you would expect. Though the more I listen to this album, the more I begin to fully understand and appreciate it that little bit more.

Songs such as Redneck Car Chase, Saloon Fight and Voodoo Haze do show the band’s sense of humour with the song titles. TDIII - Tokes, Hatred & Caffeine is a genuinely exciting album that proves why Tumbleweed Dealer are perhaps the one of the more creative Instrumental Stoner Rock bands currently out there today. It may not offer the same thrills and heavier riffs to their previous albums but this is still a great album to fully experience.

Words by Steve Howe

Links:

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