For those who were a tad disappointed with the follow-up albums to Matthew Sweet's masterpiece Girlfriend -- there have been a few songs here and there, but not much, though the epic In Reverse album comes close -- Sweet's latest release, Kimi Ga Suki * Raifu finds him near the top of his form. This album -- a love letter of sorts to his Japanese fans -- reunites the Girlfriend players on some tracks; the fact that the album was recorded in something like three days gives it a glowing, hot immediacy that his more recent output (particularly the collaborative Thorns album) lacks.
"The Ocean in Between" was one of my favorite songs of 2003; like almost all of Girlfriend -- and most of the tracks on the latest album -- the song is nearly perfect pop.
(I would have uploaded this last year, but there was some odd copyright stuff with the Japanese import CD I had, making it impossible to play in a computer.)
Hear it. (3.85 mb)
(Does anyone download this stuff, by the way?)
Posted by the wily filipino at March 11, 2004 08:52 AMPlease.. Send me the "Haunted Window" site..
Thank you very much. My fav song is a Vince Gil song.." If you ever have forever in Mind"
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