Compared to the concise songwriting of Girlfriend, Altered Beast is all over the place, both emotionally and musically. Ranging from piercing guitar rave-ups ("Dinosaur...
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A very long (15 songs!) seminal text on '90s guitar pop. Greg Leisz's pedal steel works wonders on "Winona" and "You Don't Love Me," while Robert Quine takes "Girlfriend" to...
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Matthew Sweet's third album is a remarkable artistic breakthrough. Grounded in the guitar pop of the Beatles, Big Star, Byrds, R.E.M., and Neil Young, Girlfriend melds all...
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Matthew Sweet's debut solo album was a tentative effort, featuring a handful of good songs, but it was weighed down by too many guest artists (everyone from Valerie Simpson...
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Most live releases attempt to recreate the sound of a studio album in a stage setting. Matthew Sweet's Son of Altered Beast pushes the music of 1993 studio release Altered...
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There's a certain degree of irony in the title of
Matthew Sweet's fifth solo album; anyone with song titles like "Sick Of Myself" and "Lost My Mind" is hardly a...
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Clocking in at 45 minutes, Matthew Sweet's third record of guitar-dominated, hook-laden power pop runs through its 12 songs at a classic speed, piling up songs that lovingly...
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The embodiment of all that's right about power pop, Matthew Sweet champions a style almost as predictable as the blues--and almost as abused. Much the way multitudes of...
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This rare promotional disc features alternate versions of most of the tracks from Girlfriend, plus two cover songs (the exception to the album concept being "Someone to Pull...
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If Matthew Sweet faltered attempting to live up to the promise of 1991's Girlfriend, his latest, a postcard to some notable influences of the '60s and '70s, finds the...
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Ever since Girlfriend, Matthew Sweet made tightly wound guitar pop, but In Reverse takes a different approach, borrowing elements from Phil Spector, Brian Wilson, the...
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One of the most unlikely and endearing successes of the alternative rock era, Matthew Sweet was -- and is -- one of the most consistent artists to come out of that time...
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Universal's reissue label Hip-O is distinguished by its willingness to license recordings from other record companies to create definitive compilations. This collection,...
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Matthew Sweet contributed one of the finest records of the '90s, 1991's Girlfriend, and while his work has rarely visited the lofty heights achieved by that album, he has...
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Released in September 2004, Living Things is Matthew Sweet's first official new album since 1999's In Reverse. Prior to it, he had released Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu the prior...
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Being "Big in Japan" has been a pop music in-joke for years, but few artists have paid as direct a tribute to the country as Matthew Sweet does with his 2003 album, Kimi Ga...
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