Matthew Sweet - In Reverse CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

piled on for texture while about eighty Matthew Sweets angelically harmonize. But like the classics "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' " or "Be My Baby," these songs are such perfect little valentines that the production just brings them to larger life. "If Time Permits" is an appeal to right old wrongs; "Untitled" is about the ache of unfulfillment. Sweet isn't just making tidy date music here - he has something real to say about the passage of time and the wisdom that comes after youth. He's figured out what influences are for: not just to show how cool you are, but to help you make sense of the world, and yourself in it. (RS 826)

KAREN SCHOEMER