In Brief

MEAT PUPPETS
Rise to Your Knees
Anodyne

Once upon a time in the Eighties, the Meat Puppets made more tuneful post-hardcore albums than three stoned Arizonans had any right to. Though this comeback celebrates the parole of ex-junkie bassist Cris Kirkwood, tuneful it ain't. Best track: the trance-y death-cowpunk finale. Whoopee.

Rolling Stone, June 28, 2007