You might remember The Meat Puppets from their guest appearance on Nirvana's MTV Unplugged. Now, these rock icons have made their way to Amie Street with an advance release of

. Singer/guitarist Curt Kirkwood had this to say about the record:

I like it a ton. I like it more than a lot of things I have percentage wise... This time, song-to-song, all the renditions suit me. That's because it's an independent record and nobody said a word about it. I was able to spend an extravagant amount of money; I spent 5 million dollars on it...it cost me 5 million dollars and it took me 30 years to record. [from Stereogum]

Key Tracks:

On The Rise On the Rise (

): mellow alt-country with distorted rock guitar in the background

Tiny Kingdom Tiny Kingdom (

): The Meat Puppets add a little banjo.

Enemy Love Song Enemy Love Song (

): Alt-reggae rock. Really interesting.

Light The Fire Light the Fire (

): "trance-y death-cowpunk... Whoopee." [Rolling Stone]