The new album is set for release May 12 on Megaforce Records.

The tour kicks off at The Mint in Los Angeles, May 12 and winds down at The Parish in Austin, Texas, June 20.

Additional dates on the books include shows at Schubas in Chicago (May 30-31), Magic Stick in Detroit (June 4), Mohawk Place in Buffalo, N.Y. (June 7), Cat’s Cradle in Carrboro, N.C. (June 14) and The Earl in Atlanta (June 16).

Sewn Together was written and recorded last year in between touring the states with Built To Spill and Stone Temple Pilots. The band also toured Europe and performed Meat Puppets II in its entirety as part of All Tomorrow’s Parties’ Don’t Look Back series.

To give you a hint of what Sewn Together will sound like, here’s what frontman Curt Kirkwood had to say about creating 2007’s Rise to Your Knees, the Meat Puppets’ first album in seven years:

“In the ’80s, we used to just crap this stuff out. Those SST records cost, like, five grand apiece, if that much, and those are the records that made people like us. Later, when we got into a position to work in bigger studios with outside people, we’d wind up spending a whole bunch of money and having to satisfy the people who gave us that money. We did that all through the ’90s, and I’m just not interested in doing that anymore.

“Now, if I can get away with it, I’ll make a record as cheap as I can and put as little work as I can into it, which is what we did with this one. I don’t like putting a lot [of] time into it. We cut a track, and if we’ve played it halfway right, we’re done with it.“

A press release for the band explained that Kirkwood isn’t being lazy, it’s just that the Puppet aims to streamline the music by avoiding over-thinking and obsessing with studio elements. And what’s wrong with that?