Songs You May Have Missed #768

Matthew Sweet: “If Time Permits” (1999)

It’s all big reverb, big drums and big emotion as Matthew Sweet closes out the 1990’s by acting like they never happened.

Sweet’s 1999 In Reverse album is an homage to all the things that made 60’s pop great: wall of sound production, backward guitars, psychedelia, overwrought lyrical sensibilities and most of all melody.

Oh, and Carol Kaye, the badass Wrecking Crew ace of bass herself, who’s part of that glorious wall of sound here.

It’s clear Sweet finds inspiration from Brian Wilson, the Beatles, Electric Light Orchestra and other purveyors of pop brilliance. But he also has the chops to make something new of it, something his own.

If more talented songwriters thought in reverse, we could all forget the 90’s happened.

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