Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet's influences used to be a lovely lamé noose he hanged himself with. The
Tuesday Weld shot on the cover of his album Girlfriend, the presence of heavy-hitter
guitarists like Richard Lloyd (Television) and Robert Quine (Voidoids), even his Seventies
glam-band last name - it was all quite stylish but at times chokingly trite, as if Sweet were
trying too hard and losing himself in the process. On In Reverse, his seventh albu... More >