{"id":13181,"date":"2017-09-02T05:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=13181"},"modified":"2017-08-25T11:51:20","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T15:51:20","slug":"matthew-sweet-on-tomorrow-and-thereafter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/matthew-sweet-on-tomorrow-and-thereafter\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Sweet on Tomorrow and Thereafter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nearly six years passed between the release of Modern Art<\/i>, Matthew Sweet’s 11th<\/sup> album, and 2017’s Tomorrow Forever<\/i>. In the interim, the songwriter-guitarist released a third album of covers with Susanna Hoffs, moved back to his native Nebraska, and embarked upon a Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to finance his latest album.<\/p>\n

And while the 17-track Tomorrow Forever<\/i> is being hailed as a return to form, Sweet contends that he didn’t consciously seek to evoke the vibe of classics like 1991’s Girlfriend<\/i>. \u201cI don’t ever really think about the past when I’m working on something new,\u201d he says. \u201cIt wasn’t intentional; I just did a bunch of songs.\u201d Sweet believes that his recent move to Omaha did result in \u201csomething about Tomorrow Forever<\/i> that’s really solid, grounded.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sessions for Tomorrow Forever<\/i> yielded 38 songs. The original Kickstarter campaign called for backers to receive an album of demo recordings, but as it happened, Sweet finished enough tracks to make another album. The limited-edition Tomorrow’s Daughter<\/i> features a dozen songs. As for the remaining nine, it’s not certain what will become of those. \u201cOne of them, a track called ‘Lonely Summer,’ I gave to a compilation in Canada that’s raising money for heart disease,\u201d Sweet says. \u201cBut other than that, I don’t really know. I occasionally wonder to myself what will happen with those songs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sweet has moved on from the long-gestating album sessions. He’s currently on tour with a band that features longtime musical associates Ric Menck (drums) and Paul Chastain (bass), both of Velvet Crush, and one of Tomorrow Forever<\/i>‘s session guitarists, Jason Victor. And he’s already thinking about a follow-up to his just-released album. \u201cI worked on this record a long time, partly because I sold it as a Kickstarter record,\u201d Sweet says. \u201cI’ve got some new stuff I have been working on, and I think I’ll have another one fairly quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n

That next record isn’t likely to use the same crowd funding platform, though. Sweet doesn’t think he’s suited for the social media aspect of Kickstarter campaigns. \u201cI’m not good at keeping up with that,\u201d he admits. He says that for the Tomorrow Forever<\/i> project, he \u201cwould check in and write big updates, but they were sort of months in between. And I think that a lot of people on Kickstarter expect much more constant involvement from the artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

Instead, Sweet thinks that PledgeMusic’s model might suit him better. He says that model provides \u201csomebody in between who helps generate that stuff and prod you for it.\u201d Admitting that he feels a bit guilty about Tomorrow Forever<\/i> having taken a long time to finish, he notes that \u201cI was trying to make it really good, and I think that mostly everybody’s happy with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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