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 In an essay he wrote after the sudden death of Grant McLennan in 2006, Robert Forster noted that popular opinion about the Go-Betweens was wrong. Forster – usually viewed as the more bohemian of the two – was known by McLennan as “the Strategist”. McLennan – seen as the steady one – was the dreamer.
These terms are relative, of course. Forster notes that McLennan lived so much in the moment that he (Forster) could appear visionary merely by thinking about tomorrow.
Most likely, the truth is in-between, because over the course of their long partnership Forster and McLennan had influenced each other to the point where their creativity had blurred....full text |
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| Allmusic |
| The Evangelist by singer and songwriter Robert Forster is his first solo recording in 11 years. It may not be a record he ever planned to make at all after the unexpected death of Grant McLennan, his collaborator for over 25 years in the Go Betweens. The band had released and was on tour for Oceans Apart, a masterpiece surpassed only by 16 Lovers Lane, if at all. Forster and McLennan had begun writing a new Go Betweens album in 2006, when McLennan passed away in his sleep from natural causes just shy of his 47th birthday. Three of the songs on this album were co-written by the pair and contain McLennan's final lyrics. That said, The Evangelist is not an elegy or a conscious homage to McLennan. The remaining Go Betweens -- bassist Adele Pickvance and drummer Glenn Thompson -- make up the core band, with a small string section arranged by Audrey Riley (who did them for the Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express)....full text |
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| Slantmagazine |
| A record that's under the constant threat of being swallowed whole by the context of its creation, Robert Forster's The Evangelist manages to function as an amalgam of a Forster solo record, a follow-up to his former band the Go-Betweens' Oceans Apart, and a tribute to Grant McLennan, his collaborator in the Go-Betweens for some 35 years. In May 2006, while on tour in support of the band's widely acclaimed last album, McLennan died suddenly, suffering a massive heart attack while napping before a party....full text |
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