Sewn to the Sky

Infobox Album |
Name = Sewn to the Sky
Type = Album
Artist = 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)
Recorded =
Length = 37:58
Label = Disaster Records / Drag City
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5h17gjuro6im link]
* Pitchfork Media (8.0/10) [http://pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/21827/Smog_Sewn_to_the_Sky link] |
This album = "Sewn to the Sky"
(1990)
Next album = "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.

Track listing

ide one

#"Souped Up II"
#"Kings Tongue"
#"Garb"
#"Hollow Out Cakes"
#"Confederate Bills and Pinball Slugs"
#"Coconut Cataract"
#"Fruit Bats"
#"Peach Pit"
#"Disgust"
#"Russian Winter"

ide two

#"Polio Shimmy"
#"Smog"
#"Lost My Key"
#"Fried Piper"
#"Fables"
#"Puritan Work Ethic"
#"A Jar of Sand"
#"I Want to Tell You About a Man"
#"Olive Drab Spectre"
#"The Weightlifter"