You know that part in this pop-soul smoothie's songs where the verse launches skyward into the chorus, DeGraw makes that I'm-pounding-these-piano-keys-so-hard! face, and a bajillion turtle doves explode from a rooftop somewhere? Well, there's a half-dozen good ones on his fourth full-length Sweeter (check the title track). Too bad the other half's weighed down by painfully mopey, girl-done-left-me blues. ''Everybody hurts,'' DeGraw sighs. Dude, you're telling us? B-
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