Matthew Sweet to let the Sunshine out this summer

On July 22, Shout! Factory will release Matthew Sweet's 10th studio album, Sunshine Lies, with tour news reportedly on the horizon.

“When it rocks, it rocks hard with lots of attitude,” Sweet told CMJ, speaking about the upcoming album. “Then again, it's really very melodic overall, with plenty of dreamy jangling psychedelic poppiness.”

It's been 17 years since Girlfriend propelled Sweet out of the Athens, Ga., music scene and onto the charts. Aside from his most recent offering, Under the Covers, Vol. 1, recorded with pal Susanna Hoffs, Sweet seems to be proficient at creative dabbling.

His artistic endeavors in ceramics and offering said breakthrough album as a score for a musical (called—naturally—Girlfriend) are only Sweet's most recent activities of note. Back up to 2003, when Sweet teamed up with Shawn Mullins and Pete Droge for a spell to create '90s-alt-rock supergroup The Thorns. Not to mention the album he wrote entirely for fans in Japan, or his incredibly brief stint (alongside Hoffs) in pseudo-psychedelic rock “outfit” (the kind of outfit Austin Powers might enjoy, perhaps?) Ming Tea.

All puns using his last name considered (and hereafter banned from this article), be sure visit Sweet's MySpace to check out a badass new track. No, really: it's called "Badass."

Sunshine Lies tracklisting:
1. Time Machine
2. Room To Rock
3. Byrdgirl
4. Flying
5. Feel Fear
6. Let’s Love
7. Sunshine Lies
8. Pleasure Is Mine
9. Daisychain
10. Sunrise Eyes
11. Around You Now
12. Burn Through Love
13. Back Of My Mind