Meat Puppets – Sewn Together
The extent of familiarity a lot of people have of the Meat Puppets is that they were an influence on Kurt Cobain and played with Nirvana during their MTV Unplugged performance, which is unfortunate because the Meat Puppets are an incredibly sonicly diverse band, demonstrated particularly well on Sewn Together, which features a near-perfect melding of modern rock with elements of bluegrass and subdued but powerful vocal harmonies (see “Blanket of Weeds” and “Sapphire”)…Curt Kirkwood said of the record, “If I can get away with it, I’ll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it,” and it’s glaring in the more traditional, straightforward rock songs and moments (see “Rotten Shame” and “S.K.A.”) that don’t have the same level of imagination or personality as the aforementioned tracks and are the biggest weaknesses on the album.
Rating: 7.3 / 10
May 12, 2009
Megaforce Records