Meat Puppets — Sewn Together

Sewn Together

Megaforce/Sony

Ian Gormely (CHARTattack)

05/21/2009 10:44am

Despite a revolving door of band members, Curt Kirkwood has retained the Meat Puppets moniker for the entirety of his career. No matter the musical turn — sunburnt indie freak, hit-making alterna-rocker or O.G. indie godfather — Meat Puppets were his band.

They find a through line between the southern rock experimentalism of 1984's Meat Puppets II and 1985's Up On The Sun and the straight-ahead alternative rock of 1994's Too High To Die.

Sewn Together might make Meat Puppets newbies question what Kurt Cobain ever saw in these guys, as it's hardly a groundbreaking record. But the album sounds inspired, like these guys are still excited to be making music.

Meat Puppets' continued existence isn't born out of financial necessity (though their reputation surely still helps sell some discs), but rather a continued need for self-expression.

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