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'''''Rat Farm''''' is the ]' fourteenth full-length studio album. It will be released on April 16, 2013, through Megaforce Records.<ref name=Spin_Rat/> '''''Rat Farm''''' is the ]' fourteenth full-length studio album. It was released on April 16, 2013, through Megaforce Records.<ref name=Spin_Rat/>


], the band's singer/guitarist and primary songwriter, described the album as "real blown-up folk music". He elaborated: "I tried to write stuff that would stand on its own — just the chords and the melodies, and play it kind of straight... I think that was the guiding boundary that I gave myself. It was one of those things where a lot of times, in the past especially, <nowiki></nowiki> would go, ‘Well, that’s all there is? Let’s put a prog rock part in the middle.’ But I tried to hold it off as much as I could."<ref name=Spin_Rat/> ], the band's singer/guitarist and primary songwriter, described the album as "real blown-out folk music".<ref>, John Blistein, ], April 14, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013.</ref> He elaborated: "I tried to write stuff that would stand on its own — just the chords and the melodies, and play it kind of straight... I think that was the guiding boundary that I gave myself. It was one of those things where a lot of times, in the past especially, <nowiki></nowiki> would go, ‘Well, that’s all there is? Let’s put a prog rock part in the middle.’ But I tried to hold it off as much as I could."<ref name=Spin_Rat>Kyle McGovern, Feb. 8, 2013, ]. . retrieved Feb. 19, 2013</ref>


==Track listing== ==Track listing==
The track listing was announced as:<ref name=Spin_Rat>Kyle McGovern, Feb. 8, 2013, ]. . retrieved Feb. 19, 2013</ref>

# "Rat Farm" # "Rat Farm"
# "One More Drop" # "One More Drop"

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Rat Farm is the Meat Puppets' fourteenth full-length studio album. It was released on April 16, 2013, through Megaforce Records.

Curt Kirkwood, the band's singer/guitarist and primary songwriter, described the album as "real blown-out folk music". He elaborated: "I tried to write stuff that would stand on its own — just the chords and the melodies, and play it kind of straight... I think that was the guiding boundary that I gave myself. It was one of those things where a lot of times, in the past especially, would go, ‘Well, that’s all there is? Let’s put a prog rock part in the middle.’ But I tried to hold it off as much as I could."

Track listing

  1. "Rat Farm"
  2. "One More Drop"
  3. "Down"
  4. "Leave Your Head Alone"
  5. "Again"
  6. "You Don’t Know"
  7. "Waiting"
  8. "Time and Money"
  9. "Sometimes Blue"
  10. "Original One"
  11. "River Rose"
  12. "Sweet"

Personnel

References

  1. ^ Kyle McGovern, Feb. 8, 2013, Spin. Meat Puppets 'Play it Straight' on 14th Studio Album 'Rat Farm'. retrieved Feb. 19, 2013
  2. The Meat Puppets Create 'Real Blown-Out Folk Music' on 'Rat Farm' - Album Premiere, John Blistein, Rolling Stone, April 14, 2013. Retrieved April 17, 2013.
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