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Sunshine Lies is the tenth studio album by alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 musician Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
. It was released via Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2002 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label....
 on August 26, 2008. Previews of the album had previously been available on Sweet's MySpace
MySpace

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 page with the title "Rock Bottom", although Sweet has stated that the preview was put there by his manager and that he never had any intention of releasing the album with that title.






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Sunshine Lies is the tenth studio album by alternative rock
Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. Alternative rock consists of various subgenres that have emerged from the independent music scene since the 1980s, such as Grunge music, Britpop, gothic rock, and indie pop....
 musician Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet is an United States alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Music of Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s....
. It was released via Shout! Factory
Shout! Factory

Shout! Factory is an entertainment company founded in 2002 that was started by Richard Foos , Bob Emmer and Garson Foos initially as a specialty music label....
 on August 26, 2008. Previews of the album had previously been available on Sweet's MySpace
MySpace

MySpace is a social network service website with an interactive, user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and videos for teenagers and adults internationally....
 page with the title "Rock Bottom", although Sweet has stated that the preview was put there by his manager and that he never had any intention of releasing the album with that title. Several of Sweet's regular collaborators play on the album, including Ric Menck
Velvet Crush

Velvet Crush is a power pop band from Rhode Island that achieved prominence in indie-rock circles in the early- and mid-1990s. The band broke up in 1996 but re-formed in 1998 and have continued to record, releasing their most recent album in 2004....
 (drums), Ivan Julian
Ivan Julian

Ivan Julian is a guitarist and bassist, founding member of the seminal punk rock/ new wave music group Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Outsets and Lovelies...
 (guitar), Greg Leisz
Greg Leisz

Greg Leisz is an American multi-instrumentalist, playing lap and pedal steel guitars, guitar, mandolin, and bass. Little known by his own name, his playing has appeared on recordings by Tiger Army, Bill Frisell, Dave Alvin, Tracy Chapman, The Smashing Pumpkins, Matthew Sweet, The Jayhawks, Beck, Me'shell Ndegeocello, Bruce Cockburn, Wilco, S...
 (guitar / pedal steel guitar), and Richard Lloyd (guitar). Susanna Hoffs
Susanna Hoffs

Susanna Lee Hoffs is an United States vocalist, guitarist and actress best known as a member of the all-female pop band The Bangles....
 provides backup vocals on the title track.

It was released on CD, download, and 2-LP
LP album

Long play record albums are 33? rpm Polyvinyl chloride Gramophone records , generally either 10 or 12 inches in diameter. They were first introduced in 1948, and served as a primary release format for Sound recording and reproduction until the compact disc began to significantly displace them by 1988, and eventually leaving the mainstr...
 vinyl set. The vinyl set offers four bonus tracks not available on the CD. The iTunes download version offers six bonus tracks, four of which also appear on the vinyl version.

Track listing

  1. "Time Machine" - 3:40
  2. "Room to Rock" - 3:42
  3. "Byrdgirl" - 3:18
  4. "Flying" - 4:22
  5. "Feel Fear" - 3:44
  6. "Let's Love" - 3:57
  7. "Sunshine Lies" - 3:21
  8. "Pleasure Is Mine" - 4:48
  9. "Daisychain" - 3:14
  10. "Sunrise Eyes" - 4:22
  11. "Around You Now" - 4:04
  12. "Burn Through Love" - 3:08
  13. "Back of My Mind" - 5:07
Bonus tracks (vinyl and iTunes only):
  1. "Dark Blue"
  2. "Badass" - 3:15
  3. "Could You Need Me?"
  4. "When You're Gone"
  5. "Stick It" (iTunes only)
  6. "Gone" (iTunes only)