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"The Meat Puppets at their psychedelic peak.
A tightly crafted labor of love that took them more than three months
to record, "Mirage" was released in Spring of 1987 to increasing
interest from mainstream rock circles. Writing for the Washington Post,
Joe Sasfy proclamed it "their finest, as close to a polished artistic
arrival as you'd want from a frisky anti-pop band committed to musical
spontaneity and adventure." And in the Los Angeles Reader, Chris
Morris hailed "Mirage" as "rarified rock impressionism
at its heightened best."
(vom Rykodisc-ReIssue)
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As many Meat Puppets fans had realized by 1987's Mirage, the trio would change gears and broaden their sound with each successive album. This was never more apparent than on their fourth full-length release. Synthesizers were used to add textures to the tunes, while the drums sounded metronome-perfect, almost as if a drum machine was supplying the patterns. Strangely, although Mirage was the trio's most experimental album, it also turned out to be one of their most psychedelia-based works. The groovy little ditty "Get on Down" turned out to be one of the band's first videos aired on MTV, while the title track, the melodic "Leaves," the country rocker "Confusion Fog," the unrelenting "Beauty," and the album-closing punk freak-out "Liquified" are all standouts.
(by Greg Prato, All Music Guide)
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