Sound Verite


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 trying to be 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