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Sweet Thing (band)

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Labels
  
Active until
  
2011

Origin
  
Toronto, Canada (2005)

Years active
  
2005 (2005)–2011

Past members
  
Tim Nussey

Genre
  
Alternative rock

Albums
  
Sweet Thing

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Members
  
Tyler Kyte, Morgan Waters, Alex Winter, Owen Carrier, Nick Rose

Similar
  
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Sweet Thing was a Canadian alternative rock band based in Toronto who have been signed to EMI Music Canada since 2008. They are best known for their singles "Dance Mother" and "Change of Seasons".

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A demo version of "Change of Seasons" is featured in the teen comedy film Easy A.

History

Band members are originally from Ottawa and Lindsay, Ontario, and Victoria, British Columbia. Bassist Morgan Waters, guitarist Nick Rose, and drummer Tyler Kyte all had acting careers in Canada prior to the formation of Sweet Thing. (Waters won two Gemini Awards for the television series Cock'd Gunns and one for The Morgan Waters Show.) The band took their name from the song by Van Morrison. They cite such influences as The Beatles, The Band, Stevie Wonder, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Michael Jackson, Sloan, and Ted Leo. They worked with producer Rob Schnapf (Elliott Smith, Beck) in Los Angeles for their debut album. Billboard wrote that the album "is full of chiming guitars and chugging rhythms, recalling other guitar-based groups searching for a danceable groove like Franz Ferdinand." Critic Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star wrote, " 'Lazy Susan' and 'Lorraine' prance like Spoon after a '70s soft-rock bender, while 'Winter Night' makes a run for the children-of-Coldplay club and succeeds with a smashingly universal and emotive girly-boy chorus."

Sweet Thing toured Canada in 2010 to promote their debut album.

Band members

  • Owen Carrier – lead vocals
  • Nick Rose – guitar, vocals
  • Alex Winter – guitar
  • Morgan Waters – bass
  • Tyler Kyte – drums
  • Discography

  • 2006: Sweet Thing – EP
  • 2010: Sweet Thing
  • Track listing

    1. "Change of Seasons"
    2. "Lazy Susan"
    3. "Gun"
    4. "Winter Night"
    5. "Over Me"
    6. "Dance Mother"
    7. "Spider"
    8. "Lorraine"
    9. "Duotang"
    10. "Kite Fight"
    11. "We're on Fire Tonight"
    12. "Please"

    - Produced & Mixed by Rob Schnapf

    - Engineered & Mixed by Doug Boehm

    Songs

    Change of SeasonsEasy A · 2010
    We're on Fire Tonight2010
    Lazy Susan2010

    References

    Sweet Thing (band) Wikipedia