{"id":1972,"date":"2013-12-02T17:56:39","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T21:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1972"},"modified":"2020-11-25T22:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T02:21:34","slug":"btv055-the-trouble-with-sweeney-i-know-you-destroy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/?page_id=1972","title":{"rendered":"BTV055 The Trouble With Sweeney : (I Know You Destroy)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/td>\nThe Trouble with Sweeney
\n“I Know You Destroy!” (btv055)
\nBuy Online<\/a>
\nTrack listing:
\n1. The Break Up
\n2. Surrey Is A Word I Hardly Ever Use
\n3. Arm In Arm
\n4. The Snitch
\n5. Karen
\n6. Why Can’t Anything Be Easy, Baby?
\n7. Fake Moustache
\n8. The Biggest Mary In The Entire School
\n9. At Noon
\n10. High Tide & Green Grass
\n11. The Counterfeiters<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
In a world filled with critics who want to be rock stars and rock stars who want to be critics, Philadelphia’s The Trouble With Sweeney defy it all by being exactly what they are \u2014 secretly, and against all odds, one of the best bands in America.What\u2019s new this time around are the ambitious arrangements and stellar playing found all over I Know You Destroy! \u2014 thanks as much to producer Brian McTear (Burning Brides, Mazarin, Bigger Lovers, Matt Pond PA) as well as the life breathed in by the new rhythm section of Mike Conklin on bass and Richard Stuverud (Pete Yorn, Threefish, Nash Kato) on drums. Meanwhile, the core duo of brothers-in-law Heyward Howkins and Joey Sweeney pony up what are perhaps the ten strongest songs they\u2019ve ever written \u2014 to say nothing of an extra Byrdsy pop gem contributed by Richard. If we may be so bold, the songs here run the gamut of American music, from timpani-infused confessional rockers to geekazoid new wave to rockabilly (by way of Morrissey) shuffle to…some of it sounds like it\u2019s in a damn musical!<\/p>\n

None of that should be too surprising to those who\u2019ve followed the broad literary\/rock shuffle of the band\u2019s leader, who is as beloved (and be-hated, if indeed that is a word) as a pop culture and music critic as he is as what Popmatters.com just called \u201cone of the great pop troubadours of this fresh new century.\u201d Putting aside his pedigree as the leader of the Barnabys as well as a solo artist previous to all of this, this past year has been a huge one for the kid: In addition to penning the bulk of I Know You Destroy!, he got married, made a well-received EP (Play Karen And Others) with TTWS, toured the country, nabbed top honors in the AAN Award For Music Criticism, showed up in Da Capo\u2019s Best Music Writing 2002, penned some real knee-slappers for Salon.com and then got started on two different books.<\/p>\n

Thing is, you\u2019ll find reference to none of this on I Know You Destroy! \u2014 and if you do, it is mired in a such a deep code that, hey, you know what? Be our guest. Go ahead and find it.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Trouble with Sweeney “I Know You Destroy!” (btv055) Buy Online Track listing: 1. The Break Up 2. Surrey Is A Word I Hardly Ever Use 3. Arm In Arm 4. The Snitch 5. Karen 6. Why Can’t Anything Be Easy, Baby? 7. Fake Moustache 8. The Biggest Mary In The Entire School 9. At Noon 10. High Tide & Green Grass 11. The Counterfeiters In a world filled with critics who want to be rock stars and rock stars who want to be critics, Philadelphia’s The Trouble With Sweeney defy it all by being exactly what they are \u2014 secretly, and against all odds, one of the best bands in America.What\u2019s new this time around are the ambitious arrangements and stellar playing found all over I Know You Destroy! \u2014 thanks as much to producer Brian McTear (Burning Brides, Mazarin, Bigger Lovers, Matt Pond PA) as well as the life breathed in by the new rhythm section of Mike Conklin on bass and Richard Stuverud (Pete Yorn, Threefish, Nash Kato) on drums. Meanwhile, the core duo of brothers-in-law Heyward Howkins and Joey Sweeney pony up what are perhaps the ten strongest songs they\u2019ve ever written \u2014 to say nothing…Continue readingBTV055 The Trouble With Sweeney : (I Know You Destroy)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":2138,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1972","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3807,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1972\/revisions\/3807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.burnttoastvinyl.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}