Sweet Thing are a Canadian pop rock

Pop rock

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 band based in Toronto

Toronto

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 who have been signed to EMI Music Canada since 2008. They are best known for their singles "Dance Mother" and "Change of Seasons".

History

Band members are originally from Ottawa

Ottawa

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 and Lindsay, Ontario

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, and Victoria, British Columbia

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. Bassist Morgan Waters

Morgan Waters

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, guitarist Nick Rose, and drummer Tyler Kyte

Tyler Kyte

Jonathan Tyler "Ty" Kyte is a Canadian actor and musician. He began his acting career with commercials and performing in the Musical Tommy in Toronto. Kyte was made famous amongst Canadian youth as a correspondent on the Canadian TV series Popular Mechanics for Kids alongside fellow Canadians...

 all had acting careers in Canada prior to the formation of Sweet Thing. (Waters won two Gemini Award

Gemini Award

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s for the television series Cock'd Gunns

Cock'd Gunns

Cock'd Gunns is a Canadian English language mockumentary television series originally produced for IFC and later broadcasting on Showcase. The series documents the members of fictional rock band, Cock'd Gunns, as they try to become the biggest band in the world...

and one for The Morgan Waters Show

The Morgan Waters Show

The Morgan Waters Show is a six-minute sketch comedy show starring Morgan Waters, made by CBC Television for its afternoon youth programming lineup, next to the 3 minute Mr. Meaty and Yam Roll...

.) The band took their name from the song by Van Morrison

Sweet Thing (Van Morrison song)

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. They cite such influences as The Beatles

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, The Band

The Band

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, Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder

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, Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival

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, Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

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, Sloan

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, and Ted Leo

Ted Leo

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. They worked with producer Rob Schnapf

Rob Schnapf

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 (Elliott Smith

Elliott Smith

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, Beck

Beck

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) in Los Angeles for their debut album. Billboard

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wrote that the album "is full of chiming guitars and chugging rhythms, recalling other guitar-based groups searching for a danceable groove like Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand (band)

Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish post-punk revival band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band is composed of Alex Kapranos , Bob Hardy , Nick McCarthy , and Paul Thomson .The band first experienced chart success when their second single, "Take Me Out", reached #3 in...

." Critic Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star

Toronto Star

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wrote, " 'Lazy Susan' and 'Lorraine' prance like Spoon

Spoon (band)

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 after a '70s soft-rock bender, while 'Winter Night' makes a run for the children-of-Coldplay

Coldplay

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 club and succeeds with a smashingly universal and emotive girly-boy chorus."

Sweet Thing toured Canada in 2010 to promote their debut album.

Their single "Change of Seasons" was featured in the 2010 film Easy A

Easy A

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 starring Emma Stone and Amanda Bynes.

Band members

• Owen Carrier – lead vocals
• Nick Rose – guitar
  Guitar
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  , vocals
• Alex Winter – guitar
• Morgan Waters
  Morgan Waters
  Morgan Waters is a Canadian actor. Waters was first seen on the CBC's children's program The X, which was canceled in 2003. Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Waters moved to Toronto, Ontario to host the The Morgan Waters Show, which aired on CBC Television in 2006. Waters competed in the 2000...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
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• Tyler Kyte
  Tyler Kyte
  Jonathan Tyler "Ty" Kyte is a Canadian actor and musician. He began his acting career with commercials and performing in the Musical Tommy in Toronto. Kyte was made famous amongst Canadian youth as a correspondent on the Canadian TV series Popular Mechanics for Kids alongside fellow Canadians...
  
   – drums
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Track listing

1. "Change of Seasons"
2. "Lazy Susan"
3. "Gun"
4. "Winter Night"
5. "Over Me"
6. "Dance Mother"
7. "Spider"
8. "Lorraine"
9. "Duotang"
10. "Kite Fight"
11. "We're on Fire Tonight"
12. "Please"

- Produced & Mixed by Rob Schnapf

Rob Schnapf

Rob Schnapf is an American record producer and musician. He was the co-producer of Elliott Smith's albums Either/Or, XO , Figure 8 and From a Basement on the Hill, for which he was recruited by Smith's family to complete after Smith's death.Schnapf, along with Rothrock and partner...

- Engineered & Miixed by Doug Boehm

Doug Boehm

Doug Boehm is an American record producer and sound engineer who specializes predominantly in the rock music genre and has worked in collaboration with Rob Schnapf on a number of occasions. He produced the releases of the American group French Kicks and served as the recording engineer for Dr...