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- Genre: Rock/Pop
- Style: Alternative
- Label: Shout! Factory
Ho hum, more jangly gems from power pop's most consistent tunesmith.
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Matthew Sweet’s 10th album isn’t exactly innovative, but it is what this Los Angeles-based musical conservationist does best — '60s-rooted folk-rock sounds revived with an urgency that transcends tradition. Whether he redirected romantic sorrows a la 1990’s breakthrough Girlfriend (certainly his cathartic “Room to Rock” here suggests that scenario) or simply craved another hit, Sunshine Lies’ familiar boy-loses-girl scenarios take on an existential howl as thick slabs of guitars slam and slash power pop’s expected jangle.
As proven by his 2006 covers album with ex-Bangle Susanna Hoffs, the curatorial side of Sweet’s classicism sometimes gives his music a dusty, museum-like air. Yet this same discerning taste in collaborators allows the musicians he’s culled from adventurous bands like Television and Richard Hell & the Voidoids to take risks here. Girlfriend alumni Richard Lloyd, Ivan Julian, Greg Leisz, and Ric Menck once again contribute performances simultaneously primal and polished. So does Sweet: Witness his stinging 12-string guitar ringing in the left channel throughout a mostly self-performed “Daisychain.” Yet their flash isn’t simply for show. As suggested by its title, Sunshine Lies takes the darkness hidden in the soul of sunny Byrds-inspired L.A. rock and brings it to the surface in all its well-played but deeply conflicted glory. -
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| 01. |  |
time machine |
3:39 |  |
| 02. | |
room to rock |
3:41 | |
| 03. | |
byrdgirl |
3:17 | |
| 04. | |
flying |
4:21 | |
| 05. | |
feel fear |
3:44 | |
| 06. | |
let’s love |
3:56 | |
| 07. | |
sunshine lies |
3:20 | |
| 08. | |
pleasure is mine |
4:47 | |
| 09. | |
daisychain |
3:13 | |
| 10. | |
sunrise eyes |
4:21 | |
| 11. | |
around you now |
4:04 | |
| 12. | |
burn through love |
3:07 | |
| 13. | |
back of my mind |
5:06 | |
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