Sound Verite
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{{Infobox album
| name = Sound Verite
| type = studio
| artist = The Make-Up
| cover = Sound_Verite.jpg
| alt =
| released = February 7, 1997
| recorded = Dub Narcotic Studio, Washington, D.C.
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Gospel, post-punk, funk
| length = 30:50
| label = K{{cite web |title=Nation of Ulysses |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/nation-of-ulysses/ |website=Trouser Press |access-date=19 January 2022}}
| producer = Calvin Johnson{{Cite web|url=http://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/284154/gospel-2000/|title=Gospel 2000|first=Christopher|last=Porter|date=February 28, 1997|website=Washington City Paper}}
| prev_title = After Dark
| prev_year = 1997
| next_title = In Mass Mind
| next_year = 1998
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}[{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r258155|pure_url=yes}} AllMusic review]
}}
Sound Verite is an album by the Make-Up, released in 1997.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/the-make-up-mn0000048632/biography|title=The Make-Up Biography, Songs, & Albums|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.altpress.com/features/best-punk-albums-1997/|title=These 15 albums from 1997 irrefutably proved that punk was far from dead|date=July 27, 2021|website=Alternative Press Magazine}}
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.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}
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."{{cite web |title=MAKE UP: COLORING OUTSIDE THE LINES |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1997/02/21/make-up-coloring-outside-the-lines/b1cee945-ae78-4440-ac90-f83e4eaba152/ |website=The Washington Post |access-date=19 January 2022}} Spin praised the "groovy, dance-friendly vibe."{{cite journal |last1=Kelly |first1=Christina |title=Radical Chic |journal=Spin |date=Mar 1997 |volume=12 |issue=12 |page=32}} The Guardian thought that the band's "biggest asset, [Ian] Svenonius, sings like he's moments away from death by choking, possibly on a copy of Socialist Worker."{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Caroline |title=It's funka-dialectic! Caroline Sullivan gets down to Make-up's R&B revolutions per minute |work=The Guardian |date=2 Jan 1998 |page=T14}}
Track listing
- "If They Come in the Morning" – 5:53
- "Make Up Is Lies" – 2:03
- "At the Tone, the Time Will Be" – 2:46
- "Tell it Like it Will Be" – 3:15
- "What's the Rumpus?" – 2:07
- "Gospel 2000" − 3:08
- "Hot Coals" – 2:06
- "Gold Record Pt. I" – 4:02
- "Gold Record Pt. II" – 3:09
- "Have U Got the New Look?" – 2:55