{"id":20643,"date":"2021-03-11T05:30:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20643"},"modified":"2021-03-10T11:45:38","modified_gmt":"2021-03-10T16:45:38","slug":"album-review-matthew-sweet-catspaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/album-review-matthew-sweet-catspaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Matthew Sweet &#8212; Catspaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" align=\"left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20644\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/matthew_sweet_catspaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/matthew_sweet_catspaw.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/matthew_sweet_catspaw-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/matthew_sweet_catspaw-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>Matthew Sweet\u2019s mix of hard rock crunch, indelible melodic sense and razor-sharp hooks has served him well over the course of more than a dozen solo albums and collaborative projects. But for <i>Catspaw<\/i>, Sweet works nearly alone. Joined only by longtime associate Ric Menck (Velvet Crush), he sings and plays everything but drums. His first foray into the lead guitar position is informed by those with whom he has worked \u2013 Richard Lloyd, Ivan Julian and Robert Quine among them \u2013 so <i>Catspaw<\/i> fits comfortably alongside Sweet\u2019s previous albums. In fact, his leads on standout tracks like \u201cAt a Loss\u201d could be mistaken for that of his more established sidemen. Combined with his high standard of songwriting, they make <i>Catspaw<\/i> a success.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">While you&#8217;re here, check out these links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2016\/09\/15\/matthew-sweet-sweet-16\/\">My 2016 interview with Matthew Sweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/08\/31\/matthew-sweet-tomorrow-is-here-part-1\/\">My first 2017 interview with Matthew Sweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/matthew-sweet-on-tomorrow-and-thereafter\/\">My second 2017 interview with Matthew Sweet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/05\/23\/hundred-word-reviews-for-may-2018\/#sweet\">My 2018 review of a Matthew Sweet tribute album<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/21\/concert-recap-matthew-sweet-at-the-visulite-theatre-charlotte-n-c-may-25-2018\/\">My 2018 review of a Matthew Sweet live performance<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p align=\"left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Sweet\u2019s mix of hard rock crunch, indelible melodic sense and razor-sharp hooks has served him well over the course of more than a dozen solo albums and collaborative projects. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,62,65],"tags":[1433],"class_list":["post-20643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-release","category-rawk","category-review","tag-matthew-sweet","cat-49-id","cat-62-id","cat-65-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20643"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20650,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20643\/revisions\/20650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}