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Monsters
Rock · 1989 · 10 tracks

Monsters

Meat Puppets

A heavy, sun-bleached pivot toward stadium rock that retains the band's signature desert weirdness. Gritty, metallic, and strangely expansive.

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It's like the Meat Puppets decided to become a heavy metal band in the middle of a desert fever dream.

A gritty, high-octane desert trip that balances stadium-sized riffs with hallucinogenic unease.

Monsters · vs · Meat Puppets
Studio Polished+1.2σ

The production is pushed notably harder into studio polished than this artist usually allows.

Tracklist · 10 Tracks
01
Attacked by Monsters
4:42
02
Light
4:18
03
Meltdown
3:09
04
In Love
3:54
05
The Void
6:25
06
Touchdown King
6:09
07
Party Till the World Obeys
4:22
08
Flight of the Fire Weasel
3:18
09
Strings on Your Heart
5:11
10
Like Being Alive
4:42
Moments Worth Waiting For
The aggressive, metallic crunch of the opening riff on Attacked by Monsters which signals a harder shift from their previous work.
The expansive, six-minute psychedelic drift of The Void where the desert atmosphere fully takes over.
The jarring contrast of 80s-era synth textures bubbling underneath the traditional Meat Puppets guitar squall on Light.
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