You'd never know it's been 12 years since brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood made a Meat Puppets record together, as these songs sound exactly like what should have come right after 1995's No Joke. More sedate than the arresting insanity of their classic '80s output, this batch of songs is still appealingly gitched. From the hypnotic gibberish about "your aphid master" in the opening number to the six-minute freak out that ends it all 15 tracks later, the album is like some giant insect that injects you with a paralyzing narcotic, then eats your limbs while you laugh with joy. - Tim Quirk - Rhapsody.com

The Meat Puppets have finally issued the proper followup, Rise To Your Knees. A return to the freewheeling approach that marked the Meat Puppets’ early works, Rise To Your Knees is 15 tracks of relaxed, trippy psych-rock — frayed at the edges with outlaw country and traditional folk, and loaded with menace, distortion and enough hallucinogens to send you on the acid-trip of a lifetime.

The disorienting, Middle Eastern-tinged psychedelia of “Light The Fire” harkens back to the Beatles, while “Stone Eyes” is both creepy and sunny, “Enemy Love Song” has a languid, island feel, and “New Leaf” is “Backwater” on steroids, much heavier and faster paced with strong riffs and a blinding prism of guitar notes.
And yet, the Meat Puppets make it all sound effortless. -Goldmine

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