In Reverse

Matthew Sweet - In Reverse

In Reverse
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Artist: Matthew Sweet
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1999-10-12
Music Label: Volcano
Soundtracks:
  1. Millennium Blues
  2. If Time Permits
  3. Beware My Love
  4. Faith In You
  5. Hide
  6. Future Shock
  7. Split Personality
  8. I Should Never Have Let You Know
  9. Trade Places
  10. What Matters
  11. Write Your Own Song
  12. Worse To Live
  13. Untitled
  14. Thunderstorm

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Free Music Review: Matthew Sweet's Wall of Sound
Hit: 5 Stars

When you combine Phil Spector's wall of sound and musical influences that range from Brian Wilson to Crosby, Stills and Nash, you get Matthew Sweet's masterpiece, IN REVERSE. With Sweet's distinct infectious vocals and harmonies, he is an admirable musician who weaves sounds from the past and his own thus creating a unique versatile sound. And for IN REVERSE, there is no mistaking that formula an array of instrumentation that include horns, sleigh bells, orchestral vignettes and a medley of songs stringed together making the album a concept record.

All the tracks on the album are reminiscent of the elaborate studio sounds of the 1960s and the middle of the road 1970s. However, the album would not be complete without the loud raunchy and scraggly guitars that Sweet fans know all too well from previous efforts, which can be heard on the aggressive tracks, "Faith in You" and "Split Personality." There are also the pop flavored love's forlorn songs, "Future Shock" and "I Should Never let you Know." But the album tones down a bit with the two poetic ballads, "Hide" and "Thunderstorm." "Thunderstorm" is worth noting because it is both haunting and beautiful, and may bring chills down your spine when you hear a few of the medleys that resonate sounds similar to a`70s CSN, Beatles' White Album and Abbey Road period, or a country-folk Graham Parsons.

Overall, IN REVERSE is a gem for Matthew Sweet fans or anyone who enjoys great music. It is worth revisiting or listening to more than once.

In Reverse Poster

To mix metaphors, for most of the 1990s Matthew Sweet didn't so much march to his own drummer as swim determinedly against many of the prevailing rough currents in rock music. For Sweet, the melodic sensibilities, adventurous arrangements, and production values of '60s and '70s pop have remained long-lost Holy Grails to be passionately sought. Closing out what he's termed rock's "dry decade" (for its production values, if not content), In Reverse hearkens back to Phil Spector's wall of sound and Brian Wilson's mid-'60s studio prime with a vengeance. (The great bassist of choice during those epochal recordings, Carol Kaye, is a key player here.) Epic in scope and harmonically intoxicating (if occasionally overwrought), this is an album by an artist measuring the distance between his reach and his grasp, his good sense and self-indulgence, his confidence growing with every back-to-the future track. --Jerry McCulley

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