Matthew Sweet ORIG Sealed US 2LP Modern Art 2011 MIP0005-1 Alt Rock Power Pop Original Sealed US 2 LP released in 2011 on Missing Piece Records. Cat: MIP 0005-1. 

No longer even feigning an interest in the modern world or perhaps the world outside his four walls, Matthew Sweet hunkers down with his vintage, semi-hollow bodies and 12-strings, channeling them through vintage amps in a heartfelt ode to the past that’s perhaps ironically called Modern Art. If there is modernity, it’s of the mid-century modern variety, where clean lines and tiki lamps constitute a happening pad, where each side of a vinyl LP lasts not much longer than 20 minutes. Sweet doesn’t ape this aesthetic precisely, he shuffles it around to his own liking, fully aware that this is the product of “Late Nights with the Power Pop,” one of the songs here that doesn’t have as bold a hook as expected. Actually, most of Modern Art emphasizes texture over song, Sweet supported by longtime friend and colleague Ric Menck, drummer for Velvet Crush creating a swirling, candied haze of guitars and harmonies. Often it sounds like a Southern Californian Beatles filtered through the Byrds, but Sweet doesn’t strictly stick to the sweet stuff, he does a nifty, heavy blues with “Ladyfingers,” sends up pastoral folk with “My Ass Is Grass,” and flirts with homemade orchestrations on the title cut.

Tracks : Oh oldendaze!/ Ivory tower/ She walks the night/ When love let’s go I’m falling/ Ladyfingers/ A little death/ Late nights with the power pop/ Baltimore/ My ass is grass/ December dark/ Modern art/ Sleeping/ At the screen with the world flowing in.
  Record is sealed and Mint.

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