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This double disc release celebrates the best of the solo recordings released by Robert and Grant during their seven-year hiatus from The Go-Betweens. Each selected the thirteen songs on their individual CD. While Grant's disc is a chronological journey through his catalog, Robert elected to mix up the order. The albums will be issued individually in standard packaging this fall. "They remain one of rock's most pleasurable hand-me-down discoveries" - Entertainment Weekly.
The songwriting partnership of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster made the Go-Betweens one of the 1980s' greatest unsung band
Album Description
This double disc release celebrates the best of the solo recordings released by Robert and Grant during their seven-year hiatus from The Go-Betweens. Each selected the thirteen songs on their individual CD. While Grant's disc is a chronological journey through his catalog, Robert elected to mix up the order. The albums will be issued individually in standard packaging this fall. "They remain one of rock's most pleasurable hand-me-down discoveries" - Entertainment Weekly.
The songwriting partnership of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster made the Go-Betweens one of the 1980s' greatest unsung bands. And here they are, Forster and McLennan, their solo works abbreviated and joined together. Forster's a leaper, gobbling his vocal lines and galloping atop a quick beat on "121," then slows down for slinky, wry weariness on "I've Been Looking for Somebody" and even a touch of Lou Reed in "Beyond Their Law." Simply put, Forster's aesthetically hurried, under pressure, where McLennan's at ease. The late Grant McLennan's voyage here is more appreciable, from the polished, new-wave-tinted pop of "Haven't I Been A Fool" to the crisp, visionary, starkness of "Hot Water" and "Horsebreaker Star." The doleful fiddle in the former song and McLennan's mature voice make it so memorable, and the sheer austerity and haunting electric guitar backdrops make the latter magnetic. The collective weight here is that of two veritable songwriting geniuses, one taken too soon. --Andrew Bartlett
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Manufacturer: Beggars Banquet Us
Release date: 19 June 2007
EAN: 0607618204228 UPC: 607618204228
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