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  • Summary: Produced by Matthew Sweet, this is the second album since the pop group re-formed in 2000 and its first without Michael Steel, who left in 2005.
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Under a Cloud
It’s August again and I’m on my own I’m under a cloud and I’m staying home The telephone rings and I am hiding out Rituals carved on a... See the rest of the song lyrics
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  1. Sep 27, 2011
    90
    Sweetheart of the Sun is something special, easily the second best album of their career.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Sep 28, 2011
    83
    A beautifully sustained salute to 1960s-inspired pop. [30 Sep 2011, p.74]
  3. Sep 26, 2011
    70
    Sweetheart of the Sun is a remarkably good record that comes long after anyone may have expected the Bangles to do anything much at all.
  4. Sep 26, 2011
    60
    While it may not be as perfect a pop album as All Over the Place or Different Light, the Bangles get an awful lot right on Sweetheart of the Sun.
  5. 60
    It's a spare and occasionally stiff album that has more to do with, say, the Indigo Girls than the 1960s bands the Bangles grew up worshiping.
  6. Mojo
    Dec 22, 2011
    60
    A slight addition to their catalog. [Nov 2011, p.102]
  7. Uncut
    Nov 23, 2011
    60
    The bangles here right the ship. [Dec 2011, p.79]