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1997 studio album by The Make-Up
Sound Verite
Studio album by The Make-Up
ReleasedFebruary 7, 1997
RecordedDub Narcotic Studio, Washington, D.C.
GenreGospel, post-punk, funk
Length30:50
LabelK
ProducerCalvin Johnson
The Make-Up chronology
After Dark
(1997) 		Sound Verite
(1997) 		In Mass Mind
(1998)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic

Sound Verite is an album by the Make-Up, released in 1997.

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." Spin praised the "groovy, dance-friendly vibe." The Guardian thought that the band's "biggest asset, Svenonius, sings like he's moments away from death by choking, possibly on a copy of Socialist Worker."

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

References

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



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