Matthew Sweet on His Ambitious New Record and Taking 'Girlfriend' On the Road rollingstone.com
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The artier, more abstract style is a hallmark of the Modern Art album, which was influenced in part by the singer's sideline gig selling his own hand-made ceramics on Etsy. "In the making of pottery, I really see when things get abstract or when things are more normal forms," he says. "Part of the way I think I was looking at Modern Art in making it was trying to come at things in a little bit more abstract way but without becoming cold or minimalist, and keeping some kind of heart and feeling in it while still messing around with stuff. If you hear the whole "She Walks the Night," it's like I was trying to make a song and tear it in half, or run chords backwards from where they'd been at first."
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