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Sewn Together

EMAILPRINTby Meat Puppets

Meat Puppets reviews
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7.1 User Score:

Generally favorable reviews

Based on 14 critic reviews
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Album Info

Label: Megaforce

Release Date: 12 May 2009

Discs: 1 disc

Genre(s): Rock, Alternative

Summary

The Meat Puppets return with its second album since reuniting in 2006.

What The Critics Said

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

89

Austin Chronicle

Consider the Meat Puppets' Sewn Together its "Young Frankenstein."

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80

Boston Globe

The appropriately named Sewn Together finds 50-year-old Curt Kirkwood and his 48-year-old brother Cris Kirkwood crafting mongrel music as fine as anything in the band's catalog.

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80

Q Magazine

They have shed their gormless, drifting amateurism and turned themselves into a classic American pop band. [Aug 2009, p.109]

75

The Onion (A.V. Club)

It is a dramatic improvement from the first (2007’s "Rise To Your Knees") and a satisfying recapturing of the past.

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75

Prefix Magazine

After all is said and done, the Meat Puppets have succeeded in making an album that maintains their iconoclastic reputation, but mostly just rocks.

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70

New Musical Express

While it’s not the glorious shambles we were hoping for, there’s a feeling that no matter what rehabilitation they go through, thankfully they’ll never lose those magic battle scars.

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70

All Music Guide

Sewn Together suggests that the Meat Puppets are following their bliss again, and if it's not quite up to the standards of their classic material, there's no question that it reconnects with the qualities that made them so special.

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70

Hartford Courant

At their best, the Meat Puppets tackle swampy rock, erratic punk, boisterous country, ruminative folk, and seedy psych with equal authority, all while instilling a surreal scent of the desert.

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70

Slant Magazine

Meat Puppets 2.0 is a more polished, less accidental venture than the original, which isn't necessarily a drawback.

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61

Pitchfork

So Sewn Together is gently rustic, occasionally (a bit) heavier than you might expect, and ready for any adult-leaning-but-alternative-friendly playlist. It's also pretty bland, and at worst banally melodramatic in ways that suggest the unfortunate arrival of the Meat Puppets power ballad.

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60

No Ripcord

If this was a band’s debut album, it would be a nice, pleasant first shot. But with the knowledge of what came before, too much of it sounds toothless or neutered.

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60

Mojo

Sewn Together is as winningly tuneful as it is raggedly charming. [Jul 2009, p.95]

60

Uncut

The second album of their third coming aims for the spontaneity of the early recordings, pushing those buried melodies to the surface. [Jul 2009, p.93]

50

PopMatters

Although the band remains on an independent label--oddly enough, Megaforce, which wouldn’t have touched anything this psychedelic and mellow back in its own heyday--they’ve chosen to continue on in a similar ‘90s-nostalgic vein.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this album is 7.1 (out of 10) based on 11 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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