Sunshine Lies
Sunshine Lies is the tenth studio album by the alternative rock musician Matthew Sweet. It was released ny Shout! Factory in 2008.[5]
Recording
Several of Sweet's regular collaborators play on the album, including Ric Menck (drums), Ivan Julian (guitar), Greg Leisz (guitar / pedal steel guitar) and Richard Lloyd (guitar). Susanna Hoffs and Lisa Sweet (Sweet's wife) provide backing vocals on the title track. The album was recorded and mixed by Sweet.
Previews of the album had been available on Sweet's MySpace page with the title "Rock Bottom",[6] although Sweet has said that the preview was put there by his manager and that he never had any intention of releasing the album with that title.
Release
The album had little commercial success, but favorable reviews. The review aggregating website Metacritic reports a normalized score of 71% based on 13 reviews.[7] Sunshine Lies was released on CD, download and 2-LP vinyl.[8] The vinyl set has four bonus tracks, while the iTunes download version has six bonus tracks (four of which also appear on the vinyl version).
Track listing
All tracks written by Matthew Sweet.
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1. | "Time Machine" | 3:40 |
2. | "Room to Rock" | 3:42 |
3. | "Byrdgirl" | 3:18 |
4. | "Flying" | 4:22 |
5. | "Feel Fear" | 3:44 |
6. | "Let's Love" | 3:57 |
7. | "Sunshine Lies" | 3:21 |
8. | "Pleasure Is Mine" | 4:48 |
9. | "Daisychain" | 3:14 |
10. | "Sunrise Eyes" | 4:22 |
11. | "Around You Now" | 4:04 |
12. | "Burn Through Love" | 3:08 |
13. | "Back of My Mind" | 5:07 |
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14. | "Dark Blue" | |
15. | "Badass" | |
16. | "Could You Need Me?" | |
17. | "When You're Gone" | |
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14. | "Badass" | 3:15 |
15. | "Stick It" (iTunes exclusive) | 2:52 |
16. | "Meltdown" (iTunes exclusive) | 4:02 |
17. | "Gone" | 3:27 |
18. | "Could You Need Me" | 2:31 |
19. | "Dark Blue" | 4:02 |
Personnel
References
- ↑ Sunshine Lies at AllMusic
- ↑
- ↑ Uhelszki, Jaan (28 August 2008). "Matthew Sweet: Sunshine Lies". Paste. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
- ↑ Archived September 7, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ MATTHEW SWEET TO RELEASE KALEIDOSCOPIC MASTERWORK SUNSHINE LIES ON SHOUT! FACTORY: 8/26/2008
- ↑ Un. "Matthew Sweet | Gratis muziek, tourneedata, foto's, video's". Myspace.com. Retrieved March 11, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.metacritic.com/music/sunshine-lies/matthew-sweet
- 1 2 Maher, Dave (June 4, 2008). "Matthew Sweet Tells Lies on New Record". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on January 13, 2009. Retrieved November 17, 2011.
- ↑ Sunshine Lies Deluxe Edition on iTunes
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Singles |
- "Girlfriend"
- "I've Been Waiting"
- "Time Capsule"
- "Ugly Truth"
- "Sick of Myself"
- "We're the Same"
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