Matchbox Twenty
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Matchbox Twenty
Florida’s megaplatinum matchbox twenty prove with their third album to be far more versatile than expected, comfortably outlasting the predictions of naysayers. Reuniting with producer Matt Serletic, the quintet takes credible swings at gospel (“Downfall” features a choir), Traveling Wilburys-type twang (“All I Need”), and big-arena rock with “Disease,” cowritten by singer Rob Thomas and Mick Jagger and winkingly recalling Thomas’s star turn with Carlos Santana on “Smooth.” Pedal-steel great Greg Leisz spruces up several tracks, notably the tearjerker “Hand Me…
Matchbox Twenty
Sell 10 million copies of your debut album and you might find yourself putting on a few airs. Evidence that it’s happened to matchbox twenty can be found in the new, spelled-out format of their all-lowercased name and the pretentious insertion of that name into the title of this, their sophomore set. The level of popularity achieved by their 1996 debut, Yourself or Someone Like You, posed a more profound problem, though—should they follow in the footsteps of that smash effort, or strike out in a different direction? To their credit, the Orlando quintet…
