Matthew Sweet - Sunshine Lies
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Artist: Matthew SweetEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-08-26
Music Label: Shout Factory
Soundtracks:
- Time Machine
- Room To Rock
- Byrdgirl
- Flying
- Feel Fear
- Let's Love
- Sunshine Lies
- Pleasure Is Mine
- Daisychain
- Sunrise Eyes
- Around You Now
- Burn Through Love
- Back Of My Mind
Music reviews of Sunshine Lies
Music Review: 4.5 stars for a great Matthew Sweet disc
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a superb, but not perfect CD. In the canon of Matthew Sweet - this CD perhaps ranks alongside the solid "Kimi Ga Suki", with the distinction that it rocks a bit more. Kimi is more consistent w/ no duds; Sunshine has a couple of duds (the first two songs oddly enough), but sticks in the mind a bit more. Matthew produced his trilogy of masterpieces (Girlfriend, Altered Beast, 100% fun) after getting divorced, jamming and touring w/ the influential Lloyd Cole (checkout his perfect comeback "The Negatives"), and going "electric" with legends (the late) Robert Quine and Richard Lloyd. I was then shocked by "Blue Sky on Mars" and "In Reverse"; decent albums but not up to the Sweet standard and not really memorable enough tune-wise. Some might say that they were experimental, but so were Beast and 100% Fun; the latter just having better guitars, tunes and songwriting. Then gratefully Kimi marked a grand comeback. "Living Things" is the only Sweet CD I disavow to own.
The gold medal on Sunshine goes to "Let's Love" - great fuzzy guitar, melody and simple lyric twist. The silver goes to "Feal Fear"; haunting and, get this, piano driven. Brydgirl comes in for the bronze, and I hear released as the single (smart). "Burn Through Love" gets honorable mention, and one hopes Matthew explained the double entendre or historical context to wife Lisa. The other five songs on the second half of the disk are also keepers -- they create a great mood. So 1990's Sweet fans -- IMHO, comparing Sweet to Mickey Rourke --- Kimi is Sin City and Sunshine is The Wrestler. Check it out.
Saw Matthew live last night at Webster Hall in NYC. Great concert, great music/sound, great selection of songs. Sweet's voice seemed a little ragged towards the end of this tour... perhaps he should see Bryan Ferry's vocal coach so he can tour into his 60's too ;-). Only disappointment was that he played the old Superdeformed, instead of the new Let's Love, as the closing encore. Why Matthew why?
Description of Sunshine Lies
In 1991 Matthew Sweet released Girlfriend, an alternative rock milestone, and quickly followed it up with two back-to back classics, Altered Beast and 100% Fun, that cemented his reputation as an elder statesman of indie-rock. Now, nine years after his last major solo release and on the heels of side projects with The Thorns and The Bangles' Susanna Hoffs, comes his long-awaited new album, Sunshine Lies, which hearkens back to the glories of his revered '90s albums. Features long-time sidemen Richard Lloyd (Television), Ivan Julian (Richard Hell & The Voidoids), Greg Leisz (Beck, Bill Frisell), Ric Menck (Velvet Crush), and a guest vocal by Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles).Alternative Rock CDs
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