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Format: CD
Sep 2000
Record Label: Jet Set Records
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 604978003126 |
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Details
Track Listing
1. Magic in Here
2. Spirit
3. Clock, The
4. German Farmhouse
5. He Lives My Life
6. Heart and Home
7. Surfing Magazines
8. Orpheus Beach
9. Going Blind
10. When She Sang About Angels
| Details | | Contributing artists: | Sleater-Kinney | | Producer: | The Go-Betweens | | Distributor: | Ryko Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
The Go-Betweens: Robert Forster (vocals, guitar, organ); Grant McLennan (vocals, guitar).
Additional personnel: Corin Tucker (vocals); Carrie Brownstein (guitar); Jen Chorowhas (violin); Brent Arnold (cello); Sam Coombes (keyboards); Adele Pickvance (bass, background vocals); Janet Weiss (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at Jackpot Studios, Portland, Oregon in February 2000.
The Go-Betweens were one of the first Australian bands to make a name for themselves in the New Wave era of 1978-80, and soldiered on until 1989. Their brooding synthesis of Bob Dylan, the Velvet Underground, Neil Young, and the baroque-pop of the Left Banke and the early Bee Gees never quite took the world by storm commercially, but they earned a small but devoted international following. After more than a decade, they decided to give it another go with some assistance from the Pacific Northwest's indie-rock goddesses Sleater-Kinney; it sounds like they never left.
The gently sardonic "Heart and Home" and the stark, eerie, baroque-tinged "He Lives My Life" would've fit perfectly on their classic albums TALLULAH or SPRING HILL FAIR. The moody rocker "The Clock" has the stripped-down murmur of late-'70s punk (see Wire's PINK FLAG, early R.E.M., or Sleater-Kinney's THE HOT ROCK). For the most part, the Go-Betweens' pop/rock side takes a back seat to their melancholy balladry, but that's fine, as they do haunted melancholy better than most.
Industry Reviews
3.5 stars out of 5 - ...Refreshing....briskly melodic soundscapes and richly painted lyrics that dissect disastrous 'affaires de coeur'...
Rolling Stone (09/14/2000)
8 out of 10 - ...[They've] reunited to satisfy a different group of imaginative provincials: the rockers of the Pacific Northwest....[They] sound no more dated now than they did back when punk was first figuring out its path to adulthood...
Spin (10/01/2000)
3 stars out of 5 - ...These are exquisite songs....the beauty these men deserve is restored.
Q (10/01/2000)
...A rich addition to their underappreciated catalog... - Rating: B+
Entertainment Weekly (10/06/2000)
4 out of 5 - ...10 lovely, largely introspective songs half-played, half-hinted, with sundry Sleater-Kinneys rattling around behind them...
Alternative Press (11/01/2000)
8 out of 10 - ...There's a spontaneity here that replaces the formality of tradition with something more vital...
NME (09/16/2000)
...Absolutely lovely....not a bad track to be found...
CMJ (09/25/2000)
...Their finest work yet...
No Depression (01/01/2001)
Ranked #19 in NME's Top 50 Albums Of The Year.
NME (12/30/2000)
Included in Magnet's 20 Best Albums of 2000 - ...The best album of their career...
Magnet (01/01/2001)
4.5 stars out of 5 - ...Effortlessly recaptures the spirit of the original Go-Betweens...and generally refuses to fix what ain't bust...
Uncut (10/01/2000)
4 stars out of 5 - ...You don't deserve to call yourself a music lover...unless you own a Go-Betweens album....They're what passion is made from.
Melody Maker (10/10/2000)
...It's immensely reassuring to hear [Robert] Forster deliver lines only he could have written in his bruised, laconic, declamatory tone....Incurable romantics rejoice.
Mojo (10/01/2000)
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