Description:
Meat Puppets - 2019 - Dusty Notes [FLAC]
Artist: Meat Puppets
Title: Dusty Notes
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Producer: Meat Puppets, Jeremy Parker
Release Date: March 8, 2019
Recorded: 2018-2019 at Premier Studio, Phoenix AZ
Label: Megaforce Records
Catalog: None
Barcode: 0 20286 22749 6
Genre: Rock, Alternative Rock, Grunge, Punk, Cowpunk
Duration: 40:00
Meat Puppets:
Wikipedia:
Meat Puppets is an American rock band formed in January 1980 in Phoenix, Arizona. The group's original lineup was Curt Kirkwood (guitar/vocals), his brother Cris Kirkwood (bass guitar/vocals), and Derrick Bostrom (drums). The Kirkwood brothers met Bostrom while attending Brophy Prep High School in Phoenix. The three then moved to Tempe, Arizona (a Phoenix suburb and home to Arizona State University), where the Kirkwood brothers purchased two adjacent homes, one of which had a shed in the back where they regularly practiced.
Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their labelmates on SST Records, they established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals. Meat Puppets later gained significant exposure when the Kirkwood brothers served as guest musicians on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance in 1993. The band's 1994 album Too High to Die subsequently became their most successful release. The band broke up twice, in 1996 and 2002, but reunited again in 2006.
Meat Puppets has influenced a number of rock bands, including Nirvana, Soundgarden, Dinosaur Jr, Sebadoh, Pavement, Jawbreaker, and Sublime.
Dusty Notes:
AllMusic Review by Mark Deming:
Plenty of music fans have a great sentimental attachment to the notion of "getting the band back together." It's not unusual for a veteran act to go through a number of lineup changes over the course of a career, but some listeners will always hold out hope that one of the absent yet defining members of a group will return, and the band will magically be returned to their former glories. Meat Puppets loyalists were overjoyed in June 2018 by the news that Derrick Bostrom, who played drums with the band during their 1980 to 1996 heyday, had rejoined the Pups, and expectations ran high for 2019's Dusty Notes, the first Meat Puppets album since 1995's No Joke! to include the original core trio of Bostrom, guitarist Curt Kirkwood, and bassist Cris Kirkwood. However, those who thought this meant we might get another classic album like Meat Puppets II or Up on the Sun (or Too High to Die if you were an alternative rock fan in the '90s) should keep in mind this isn't exactly the classic lineup of the band. The Meat Puppets have been expanded to a five-piece with the addition of second guitarist Elmo Kirkwood (Curt's son) and keyboardist Ron Stabinsky, and though Bostrom's drumming is solid and cuts a comfortable, commanding groove just as it did in the '80s, it doesn't dramatically change the sound of this edition of band. In most respects, Dusty Notes follows a creative template similar to that of post-millennial Meat Puppets efforts such as 2008's Sewn Together and 2013's Rat Farm, and Stabinsky's keyboards ultimately play a bigger role in the album's overall mood than Bostrom's percussion. With the exception of the hard-changing and slightly proggy "Vampyr's Winged Fantasy," the vibe of Dusty Notes is amiable and laid-back, with the slightly foggy harmonies of the Kirkwood Brothers up front as Curt lays guitar patterns over straightforward psych-infused melodies and the rhythm section holds down an amiable shuffle behind it all, with Stabinsky adding a playful atmosphere as he replicates calliopes, horns, harpsichords, or an old Hammond B-3 depending on his surroundings. The Meat Puppets have been quietly making fine albums since Cris Kirkwood returned to the band in 2007, and hopefully Bostrom's presence will earn Dusty Notes a larger audience than the band's last few releases. But the sound isn't a throwback to their first (or second) great era so much as it reflects the best qualities of their more mature work, and if it's not quite what some folks may have hoped for, it's a pleasing and well-crafted set that reminds listeners this band is still vital and productive.
Tracklist:
01. Warranty - 3:58
02. Nine Pins - 4:04
03. On - 3:22
04. Unfrozen Memory - 4:23
05. Dusty Notes - 3:45
06. The Great Awakening - 5:13
07. Sea of Heartbreak - 2:49
08. Nightcap - 4:35
09. Vampyr's Winged Fantasy - 3:39
10. Outflow - 4:09
Personnel:
Cris Kirkwood - Bass, Vocals, Banjo
Derrick Bostrom - Drums, Percussion
Elmo Kirkwood - Guitar, Vocals
Curt Kirkwood - Guitar, Vocals, Thumb Piano, Percussion
Ron Stabinsky - Keyboards
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