''Tomorrow Forever'' is the twelfth album by

alternative rock Alternative rock, or alt-rock, is a category of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1970s and became widely popular in the 1990s. "Alternative" refers to the genre's distinction from Popular culture, mainstre ...

musician

Matthew Sweet Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is an American alternative rock/power pop singer-songwriter and musician who was part of the burgeoning music scene in Athens, Georgia, during the 1980s before gaining commercial success in the 1990 ...

, funded wholly by his fans through the crowdfunding platform

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. It was released on June 16, 2017 as a digital download, CD, and as a 2- LP vinyl set.

Production

The album was funded by a

campaign, which ran from June 27 – July 27, 2014. The album's expected April 2015 release date was delayed to June 2017. Sweet originally recorded 38 songs, and cut this down to 17 for the final album, which was the reason for the delay in release. Twelve of the remaining 21 tracks were released in a bonus demo album (''Tomorrow's Daughter''), sent exclusively to backers of the campaign on Kickstarter, and intended for official release at a later date.

Release

The album charted at number 27 on the Billboard Independent Albums chart. Critics generally praised the album, but highlighted its familiarity to his earlier albums. The review aggregating website

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reports a normalized score of 77% based on 4 critic reviews.

Track listing

Personnel

Rod Argent Rodney Terence Argent (born 14 June 1945) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer, and record producer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, Argent came to prominence in the mid 1960s as the keyboardist, founder and leader of the ...

- piano * Evan Carter - painting photography * Paul Chastain - 12 string electric guitar, electric guitar, rhythm guitar *

Gary Louris Gary Louris (born March 10, 1955) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter of alternative country and pop music. He was a founding member of the Minneapolis-based band the Jayhawks and their principal songwriter and vocalist after the ...

- electric guitar, backing vocals * Sean Magee - mastering * Valentine McCalumn - baritone,

Dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

, electric slide guitar, guitar, electric guitar, steel guitar, mandolin, slide guitar, wah wah guitar * Ric Menck - drums * Dan Miggler - art direction * John Moremen - electric guitar, rhythm guitar *

Debbi Peterson Deborah Mary Peterson (born August 22, 1961) is an American musician and the drummer of the band The Bangles. She sang lead vocals on two of the band's released singles, "Going Down to Liverpool" (1984) and " Be with You" (1989). She is the you ...

- drums * Matthew Sweet - bass, engineer, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin,

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

, mixing, organ, piano, primary artist, producer

Chart performance

References

External links

* {{Authority control Matthew Sweet albums 2017 albums Albums produced by Matthew Sweet