Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A career in steep decline

If you like Matthew Sweet then stick to listening to your copies of Girlfriend and 100% Fun. In case you didn't get the hint from In Reverse or The Thorns, Sweet's glory days are behind him. Living Things has no appeal even to a longtime fan of Sweet's work. The late tempo change, feeble anthemic ending, and indulgent, poorly chosen, overly loud steel drums in the first track give you an early indication of just how many things go wrong with this album.