Title: Matt's lost it
Product review: With these last two album releases, Blue Sky on Mars and In Reverse, Sweet is but a faint shadow of what he once was.Sweet's career has been a fairly perplexing and interesting one. He started out playing wimpy synth-dance stuff with those heavy '80s drums. Luckily, he ditched that style and went for power-pop with heavy '60s and early '70s influences, and hit gold. Girlfriend was the breakthrough album for that style. Then came Altered Beast, a noisy, dark album which shattered any expectations of a "Girlfriend II." 100% Fun was a return to classic power-pop.After that, Sweet ran out of steam. Blue Sky is extremely pedestrian. In Reverse is even worse. His talent is apparently what is going in reverse. He's lost it.Too bad -- I was a big Matthew Sweet fan for at least three albums, from Girlfriend to 100% Fun. And now this dreck. What happened? Well, I guess "Nothing Lasts."
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