Sound Verite Explained

Sound Verite
Type:studio
Artist:The Make-Up
Cover:Sound_Verite.jpg
Released:February 7, 1997
Recorded:Dub Narcotic Studio, Washington, D.C.
Genre:Gospel, post-punk, funk
Length:30:50
Label:K[1]
Producer:Calvin Johnson[2]
Prev Title:After Dark
Prev Year:1997
Next Title:In Mass Mind
Next Year:1998

Sound Verite is an album by the Make-Up, released in 1997.[3] [4]

The album's cover appears to be an homage to the cover of Love's Forever Changes, a band to which the Make-Up were often compared.

Critical reception

The Washington Post wrote that "at its most scrappy, the album sounds like an intentionally amateurish British punk band (early Alternative Television, say) trying to be (the artist formerly known as) Prince."[5] Spin praised the "groovy, dance-friendly vibe."[6] The Guardian thought that the band's "biggest asset, [Ian] Svenonius, sings like he's moments away from death by choking, possibly on a copy of Socialist Worker."[7]

Track listing

  1. "If They Come in the Morning" – 5:53
  2. "Make Up Is Lies" – 2:03
  3. "At the Tone, the Time Will Be" – 2:46
  4. "Tell it Like it Will Be" – 3:15
  5. "What's the Rumpus?" – 2:07
  6. "Gospel 2000" − 3:08
  7. "Hot Coals" – 2:06
  8. "Gold Record Pt. I" – 4:02
  9. "Gold Record Pt. II" – 3:09
  10. "Have U Got the New Look?" – 2:55

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nation of Ulysses . Trouser Press . 19 January 2022.
  2. Web site: Gospel 2000. Christopher. Porter. February 28, 1997. Washington City Paper.
  3. Web site: The Make-Up Biography, Songs, & Albums. AllMusic.
  4. Web site: These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead. July 27, 2021. Alternative Press Magazine.
  5. Web site: MAKE UP: COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES . The Washington Post . 19 January 2022.
  6. Kelly . Christina . Radical Chic . Spin . Mar 1997 . 12 . 12 . 32.
  7. News: Sullivan . Caroline . It's funka-dialectic! Caroline Sullivan gets down to Make-up's R&B revolutions per minute . The Guardian . 2 Jan 1998 . T14.

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