Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (RSD Black Friday 2023) WRP10247.1

Meat Puppets - Forbidden Places (RSD Black Friday 2023) WRP10247.1Stop us if you've heard this one before: long time indie favorite finally signs a major label contract and their first album is an overproduced shadow of their former sound. Well, that AIN't what happened here; the Meat Puppets's first album for London Records (home of their beloved ZZ Top) is actually one of their best. And, ironically, one of their most overlooked, for their new home's major label marketing muscle was no match for the grunge craze

"I'll Stand Up for You"

after acrimoniously leaving EMI

Blue Note Tone Poet Series

and featuring copious photos

Run Westy Run and The Replacements

Their debut album Future Me Hates Me

We both were looking to stay busy

its layers of backwards guitar and Shapiro's double-tracked close harmonies transform into a boogie-rock jam The Flaming Lips probably wished it had recorded first

The House Is Burning is the third studio album by rapper Isaiah Rashad

Parker has said Currents' designs are based on a diagram of vortex shedding he remembered while trying to visualize the album's themes

• The 12” sleeve featuring the original art

and vocalist known as Lingua Ignota has announced her Sargent House debut