In Reverse is the seventh album by alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 musician Matthew Sweet

Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...

. It was released on Volcano Records in 1999. While not known as one of his most impressive albums via sales, it does attempt some unconventional tracking. Sweet combines three bass guitar lines on the song "Thunderstorm", and other selections, such as "If Time Permits", hint of sound/song reversal as implied in the album's title http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/s/sweetmatthew-in.shtml. Effectively, Sweet attempts to reverse subtle would-be conventional pop riffs and solos to make them sound like they are being played backwards. Some may find this ironic because Sweet's conventional sound, which was established on his first six albums, still endures and remains distinctive.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Matthew Sweet

1. "Millennium Blues" - 2:52
2. "If Time Permits" - 3:03
3. "Beware My Love" - 3:51
4. "Faith in You" - 3:32
5. "Hide" - 4:02
6. "Future Shock" - 3:22
7. "Split Personality" - 4:19
8. "I Should Never Have Let You Know" - 2:48
9. "Trade Places" - 2:57
10. "What Matters" - 4:13
11. "Write Your Own Song" - 3:03
12. "Worse to Live" - 5:04
13. "Untitled" - 2:43
14. "Thunderstorm" - 9:37

Personnel

• Matthew Sweet - vocals, guitar, bass, organ, synthesizer, percussion
• Bruce Fowler
  Bruce Fowler
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   - trombone
• Walt Fowler - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Rick Cunha - acoustic guitar
• Jim Keltner
  Jim Keltner
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   - drums
• Victor Bisetti - percussion
• Don Heffington - percussion
• Carol Kaye
  Carol Kaye
  Carol Kaye is an American musician, best known as one of the most prolific and widely heard bass guitarists in history, playing on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions in a 55 year career....
  
   - bass
• Greg Kurstin - piano, organ, harpsichord
• Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz
  Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass.- Biography :Leisz was influenced early on by the Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers, especially pedal steel player "Sneaky" Pete Kleinow...
  
   - guitar, pedal steel
• Fred Maher
  Fred Maher
  Fred Maher is an American drummer, programmer and record producer.He was a member of Massacre , Material, Scritti Politti, Lou Reed, and is best known as the producer of I'm Talking's album Bear Witness , Lou Reed's album New York , Matthew Sweet's album Girlfriend , and Information Society's self...
  
   - drums, percussion
• Tony Marsico - acoustic bass
• Ric Menck - drums, percussion
• Jamie Muhoberac
  Jamie Muhoberac
  Jamie Muhoberac is a session keyboardist with numerous credits, including The All-American Rejects, Fleetwood Mac, The Rolling Stones , Backstreet Boys, Aly & AJ, Bob Dylan, Goo Goo Dolls, Chris Cornell , My Chemical Romance, Paradise Lost, Girlfriend, Carmen Rizzo and Pet Shop Boys...
  
  - organ, piano
• Paul Chastain - acoustic guitar
• John Ginty - organ, piano, harpsichord
• Brian Kehew - organ, piano, harpsichord
• Pamelia Kurstin - theremin