The sharp, crunchy guitars, the bouncy, but firm rhythms, and the hypnotic vocals, not to mention quirky keyboards, dazzle as Matthew Sweet delivers hit after hit without a dud. A true pop aficionado, Sweet will go down in musical history as a man able to turn the simplest of power-pop numbers into catchy, addictive, and filling masterpieces that only grow and grow with time. Here's hoping in another twenty years everyone and his or her mother wants to be a Matthew Sweet clone. I'll give this an A+.

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[Issue Thirty-Five // January 2001]