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Mirage
Rock · 1987 · 12 tracks

Mirage

Meat Puppets

Sun-drenched psychedelia that trades punk grit for shimmering guitar textures. A surrealist trek through the American Southwest where the air is thick with heat haze.

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It's like a Grateful Dead record if they grew up on desert punk and lived on nothing but sunbeams.

A shimmering, sun-bleached daydream that feels both expansive and slightly hallucinogenic.

Mirage · vs · Meat Puppets
Dreamy+1.4σ

Dreamy saturates this record notably more than the artist's norm.

Tracklist · 12 Tracks
01
Mirage
3:42
02
Quit It
2:39
03
Confusion Fog
3:53
04
The Wind and the Rain
2:59
05
The Mighty Zero
3:18
06
Get On Down
2:56
07
Leaves
2:41
08
I Am a Machine
4:25
09
Beauty
3:05
10
A Hundred Miles
3:37
11
Love Our Children Forever
3:59
12
Liquified
3:10
Moments Worth Waiting For
The crystalline guitar interplay on the title track that feels like light reflecting off water.
The sudden shift into the heavy, churning riffage of 'Liquified' that closes the album with a grit-teeth intensity.
The way the vocal harmonies on 'Leaves' float above the steady, driving bassline like a heat mirage.
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