Shout FactoryMatthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs make beautiful music together... other people's music, that is.
Covers albums, by their very nature, are a mixed bag. Not only are their songs usually drawn from disparate sources, but the quality of interpretations varies wildly as well.
Beyond that, the covers album seems to represent a mixed bag for the artists creating them. On the one hand, it gives them a, presumably, fun opportunity to try their hand at someone else's material, but it
