Sewn to the Sky

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Sewn to the Sky
Studio album by Smog
Released	1990 (LP on Disaster) November 17, 1995 (CD on Drag City) January 30, 1996 (LP on Drag City) 2001 (CD on Drag City)
Length	37:58
Label	Disaster Records / Drag City
Professional reviews
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Smog chronology
Sewn to the Sky (1990) Floating (1991)

Sewn to the Sky is Smog's debut album, released in 1990 on Disaster Records. It was later re-released on Drag City and manifested Bill Callahan's importance for the Lo-fi music in the early 90s. This highly experimental album combined homerecording, substandard instruments and repetitive and noisy songwriting-structures for what would later be called the pioneering of the lo-fi genre. The liner notes stated it was recorded on a "dumpster Portastudio".

The track "A Jar of Sand" would later be re-recorded for the 'Neath the Puke Tree EP in 2000.

The track "I Want to Tell You About a Man", written about Jesus Christ, references Philip K. Dick in the line "He doesn't read Dick K. Philips," reversing Dick's name ostensibly for humor.

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Side one

1. "Souped Up II"
2. "Kings Tongue"
3. "Garb"
4. "Hollow Out Cakes"
5. "Confederate Bills and Pinball Slugs"
6. "Coconut Cataract"
7. "Fruit Bats"
8. "Peach Pit"
9. "Disgust"
10. "Russian Winter"

[edit] Side two

1. "Polio Shimmy"
2. "Smog"
3. "Lost My Key"
4. "Fried Piper"
5. "Fables"
6. "Puritan Work Ethic"
7. "A Jar of Sand"
8. "I Want to Tell You About a Man"
9. "Olive Drab Spectre"
10. "The Weightlifter"