Meat Puppets Return With New Album, LOLLIPOP 4/12

The legendary rock trio Meat Puppets announce their powerful return with the release of their new album Lollipop out April 12, 2011 on Megaforce Records.

Following up on their critically lauded 09 release, Sewn Together, Lollipop was recorded at Spoon's HiFi Studio's in Austin.

Produced by band leader Curt Kirwood, the album features
the indelible Kirkwood brothers back at work and back at play on 12 new original cuts, reinforcing the band's hypnotic power recognized by SPIN for "the interplay of Curt's drowsy vocals and freaky guitar can still induce vertiginous spells."

History of the Meat Puppets, the recording and release of Lollipop

Accurately known as a premier indie band favored by the likes of Sonic Youth, Ween, Pavement, Widespread Panic, Stone Temple Pilots, and ZZ Top, the Meat Puppets remain one of the most significant and vibrant American original acts. The band's reputation is linch pinned because of their incomparable abilities in blending punk/d.i.y. attitude with country and psychedelic rock feel. The esteemed Kirkwood brothers were widely exposed to the MTV generation when Nirvana's Cobain pursued them to join as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's subsequent album Too High to Die went gold, selling over 500,000 albums, and became their most successful commercial release. After various trials and tribulations that have been well documented, the band reunited in 2006. With the new Lollipop, the band has now delivered three consecutive bat-right-on-the-ball studio efforts.

New to this album and now a permanent member of the band, is drummer Shandon Sahm, whose dad was noted avant-garde Texan traditionalist Doug Sahm (Sir Douglas Quintet; Texas Tornados).

Rolling Stone heralds the bands' return -
"Against all odds, The Meat Puppets are rocking again."

Curt looks back at the Meat Puppets' history, explains where they are today
and expounds on the creation of "a record that stands on its own, not on the band's reputation."

NPR featured the Meat Puppets' session with KEXP.
The Meat Puppets created a video for Sewn Together track "Rotten Shame."
ABC Amplified featured the band's journey to hell and back here and here.
NPR hosted a live session and interview with the Meat Puppets.

The Meat Puppets performed a SXSW Daytrotter Session.

Press praise for Sewn Together
"Thank you Jesus for the Kirkwood brothers. Sewn Together is one of the top five best albums I've heard so far this year and more importantly, it is yet another step in The Meat Puppets' journey of greatness." - THE TRIPWIRE

"Sewn Together, which is a wonderfully satisfying work. Somehow, it all does get sewn together in a mix of styles that's both head-spinning and earthily rocking." - LA WEEKLY

"Sewn Together is reminiscent of the Glory Days of the Meat Puppets." - FILTER

" 3 1/2 Stars... The interplay of Curt's drowsy vocals and freaky guitar can still induce vertiginous spells -- witness the dreamy yet insistent "Blanket of Weeds" -- while the snappy "Love Mountain" reveals the clever pop craftsman behind his woozy persona." - SPIN

"Sewn Together's songs demonstrate that the once purveyors of grunge are still adept songwriters." - AOL SPINNER

"The number of ingredients found in a Meat Puppets record is impressive, but the way the band blends those pieces is what's truly astonishing. At its best, Arizona's Meat Puppets makes you think there are no boundaries between punk, country, and pop. The appropriately named "Sewn Together" finds Curt Kirkwood and his brother Cris Kirkwood crafting mongrel music as fine as anything in the band's catalog." - BOSTON GLOBE

Lollipop Track Listing
1. Incomplete
2. Orange
3. Shave It
4. Baby Don't
5. Hour Of The Idiot
6. Lantern
7. Town
8. Damn thing
9. Amazing
10. Way That It Are
11. Vile
12. The Spider And The Spaceship

 

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