Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet – WXRT Live in Grant Park, Chicago IL July 4, 1993 (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:14:13 minutes | 1,51 GB | Genre: Alternative Rock
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Matthew Sweet in concert this weekend. Recorded in Chicago at fabled Grant Park on July 4, 1993.

After spending the ’80s as a jangle pop guitarist with Oh-OK and Lloyd Cole, as well as a solo artist, Matthew Sweet emerged in 1991 as the leading figure of the American power pop revival. Like his British counterparts Teenage Fanclub, Sweet adhered to traditional songcraft, yet subverted the form by adding noisy post-punk guitar and flourishes of country-rock, resulting in an amalgam of the Beatles, Big Star, R.E.M., and Neil Young. Recorded with guitarists Richard Lloyd and Robert Quine, Sweet’s third album, Girlfriend (1991), became a word-of-mouth critical and commercial hit over the course of 1992, with its title track reaching the Top Five on the Modern Rock charts. For the next five years, as alternative rock was the dominant commercial force in rock & roll, Sweet became a very popular concert attraction and solidified his reputation as the premiere alternative pop singer/songwriter. His next two records, Altered Beast (1993) and 100% Fun (1995) were both critically acclaimed and successful albums, reaching platinum status and making many year-end best-of lists.

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Matthew Sweet – Tomorrow’s Daughter (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 40:06 minutes | 488 MB | Genre: Power Pop, Rock, Singer-Songwriter
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Honeycomb Hideout

Matthew Sweet had a head start for his new album, Tomorrow’s Daughter, whose opening track and first single “I Belong to You” is premiering below. Sweet wrote and did most of the recording for the dozen songs on the set, which comes out May 18, while making last year’s expansive Tomorrow Forever. “It’s really, like, a deeper dive into the sessions that made Tomorrow Forever,” the Nebraska-based Sweet tells Billboard. “At the time I was finalizing that record I took all of these other songs I really liked and made it into this album. I didn’t know if I’d get to release it right away or what, but I just liked the way they fell together.” Sweet likens the project to the 1994 EP Son Of Altered Beast but notes that “this is more of a real record. It’s a whole 12 songs that seemed to hold together and be their own fresh thing.”

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Matthew Sweet – Tomorrow Forever (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 59:05 minutes | 732 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © S. Matthew Sweet

After spending the ’80s as an unappreciated jangle pop guitarist with Oh-OK and Lloyd Cole, as well as a solo artist, Matthew Sweet emerged in 1991 as the leading figure of the American power pop revival. “Tomorrow Forever” is his new album, the first in six years, features contributions from the Zombies’ Rod Argent, Paul Chastain, the Jayhawks’ Gary Louris, Ric Menck, and the Bangles’ Debbie Peterson.

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Matthew Sweet – Catspaw (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:56 minutes | 505 MB | Genre: Classic Rock, Powerpop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Omnivore Recordings

Who is to say every artist must evolve and experiment and get outside their proven comfort zone to make consequential art? There’s still something to be said for artists who find their groove early and then stick with what they know. Enter Matthew Sweet, now in his mid-50s, who has been mining a seemingly endless seam of power pop—sunnier at some moments than others—since his 1991 breakthrough, Girlfriend.
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