| Sewn to the Sky | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Smog |
| Cover: | smog-sewntothesky.gif |
| Released: | 1990 (LP on Disaster Records) November 17, 1995 (CD on Drag City) January 30, 1996 (LP on Drag City) 2001 (CD on Drag City) |
| Genre: | Experimental music |
| Length: | 37:58 |
| Label: | Disaster Records, Drag City |
| Next Title: | Floating |
| Next Year: | 1991 |
Sewn to the Sky is an album by Smog, released in 1990 by Disaster Records.[1] Most sources consider it to be Smog's first album, made after the release of several cassette-only recordings.[2] It was re-released by Drag City in 1995.[3] The experimental album combined home recording, substandard instruments and repetitive and noisy songwriting structures, and was an early example of the lo-fi genre.
The track "A Jar of Sand" was re-recorded for the 'Neath the Puke Tree EP in 2000.
The album was recorded in Georgia and Maryland.[4] The liner notes say that it was recorded on a "dumpster Portastudio". Spin wrote that the recording "found [Callahan] relishing the process, with little regard for form or the guitar he was still learning to really play".[5]
Trouser Press wrote, "Suffused with the vague gray atmospherics suggested by the band’s name, Sewn to the Sky is primitive and promising."[6] The New Yorker wrote that the album is a "discordant, inscrutable, and periodically frustrating collection of mostly instrumental, low-fidelity noise, and contains few hints of the lucid and tender folk music that he would be making almost thirty years later".[7]