After more than a decade apart, brothers Cris and Curt Kirkwood have reunited to make their first record together since 1995’s No Joke. The legendary cowpunk anti-heroes that rose from SST Records to international fandom will stop at One Eyed Jacks on September 15th. The Puppets just released their new album, Rise To Your Knees, on July 17th, and their new old lineup already has a successful West Coast tour under its belt and are now setting out on their first full tour since reuniting.
Rise to Your Knees is a dense, layered record that finds the band continuing to grow as songwriters and musicians, not just rehashing the past. The bulk of the CD rolls along with country-tinged, laid-back songs--some hopeful and some bleak. With menace lurking at their edges, songs like “Vultures” start and end with protracted bouts of static. On tracks like “New Leaf” and “Disappear,” the record brings them back to the quintessential rock sound that original Meat Puppets fans have grown to love.
Rise To Your Knees is more than just 15 tracks of classic-style Meat Puppets. It’s Cris Kirkwood’s rebirth after decades of drug abuse, legal problems, and jail time. And it’s good to have him back.
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