Grinspoon - Sweet AsSugar

Sun 23rd Oct, 2005 in Music Reviews

Grinspoon have been around for approximately 10 years and show no sign of slowing down. While they’ve spent the majority of this year touring the country singing songs from their latest album Thrills, Kills and Sunday Pills, which recently won them an ARIA for Best Rock Album, they’ve come up with another gem.

They are now going to release a ‘best of’ album titled Best in Show (out in early November), and the Grinners have released a new single in hope that it will boost sales. Personally, I think the track listing on this album will sell on its own but it always helps to have a current song to keep your name and sound afresh in the listeners mind.

Their latest single is Sweet As Sugar and is reminiscent of their last album with that pop/rock sound. This isn’t a slow song and is full of that constant bass guitar strum and hammering drums that we have all come to associate with Grinspoon, and is without those screaming vocals from Phil Jamieson but still maintains a strong and steady performance. Some people aren’t fans of the ‘new’ Grinspoon, the more pop sounding Grinspoon that is, so if you find yourself in this category you might not like this new track. Nevertheless, it’s one of those infectious songs that stays in your head after you hear it where you will find yourself constantly singing the chorus.

While listening to this song, I’ve tried to decipher what it’s about and have come up with this theory. The lyrics imply that the person they’re singing about has dramatically changed and has become ‘someone else’. This is gathered from the lyrics: