{"id":1798,"date":"2001-04-24T17:52:05","date_gmt":"2001-04-24T15:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2008-08-02T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T15:53:13","slug":"music-the-meat-puppets-emer-kenny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2001\/04\/music-the-meat-puppets-emer-kenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Music: The Meat Puppets &#038; Emer Kenny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Sheila for this :)<\/p>\n<p>From theWB:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roswell Music<\/p>\n<p>The Meat Puppets<br \/>\nRoswell<\/p>\n<p>Five years after the release of No Joke!, the Meat Puppets return with Golden Lies and a new Austin-based cast under the direction of guitarist and singer Curt Kirkwood. The five years have been dreadful by most accounts, with bassist-cofounder (and Curt&#8217;s brother) Cris devastated by acute, prolonged heroin addiction and the death by overdose of his wife&#8211;a story too detailed and sordid to deliver here. So Curt&#8217;s back with additional guitarist Kyle Ellison, bassist Andrew Duplantis, and drummer Shandon Sahm, and the band is as steeped in desert-scorched psychedelia as they were in their early-&#8217;90s London Records days. And though it&#8217;s hard to chart growth with a band that started their career with the brilliance of Meat Puppets II, Kirkwood shows not only the warpy ambition he crowned fans with in the mid-1980s but also a knack for using the studio as instrumental in creating a depth befitting the band that many have cited as one of American punk&#8217;s greats. Kirkwood&#8217;s laconic, deadpan voice matches wits with his and Ellison&#8217;s thicker, artfully compressed, guitar attack. There are rave-ups (&#8220;Take Off Your Clothes&#8221;), deep-listening background dynamics, and even a very odd mottle of pop and choked-vocal guitar buzz on &#8220;Push the Button.&#8221; Easily as good as any of the London-era Meat Puppets material, Golden Lies sounds like the dawn of a new meaty era. &#8211;Andrew Bartlett<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Sheila for this :) From theWB: Roswell Music The Meat Puppets Roswell Five years after the release of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[240,930],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roswell","tag-music","tag-the-meat-puppets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1798"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}