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- Summary: The 10th album for the alt-rocker features Susanna Hoffs on backing vocals on one track.
- Record Label: Shout Factory
- Genre(s): Rock, Alternative
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| Feel Fear | |
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| Sun Going down and fading me out with it Chances are we'll both come around again So I let it be See No one else but who is in front of me There is... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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MojoMatthew Sweet returns with a tenth tune-fest that's equal parts sunny delight and cathartic, Posiesesque bluster. [Oct 2008, p.106]
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Sunshine Lies contains some of Sweet’s best moments in years, with the classic push/pull of gloriously sunny melodies and lyrical darkness underneath.
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UncutIt's gratifying to hear this veteran crew sounding so scrappy. [Oct 2008, p.113]
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Some may be turned off by his showy leads and somewhat cheesy sentiments, but those are the very things that hooked longtime fans in the first place.
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Yoking fuzz-stoked guitars (credit Television vet Richard Lloyd) to gorgeous melodies derived from the Beatles and Big Star, Sweet serves up his best tunes since "Altered Beast."
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Consistent, it isn't, but Sunshine Lies has moments that make 2008 sound like 1995 trying to revive 1965 all over again.
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As much work as Sweet clearly put into this disc, hearing him glide instead of soar makes it all sound too easy, which sadly makes it that much easier to forget.
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