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The Evangelist (CD)

By: Robert Forster (Artist)

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DISC 1 for The Evangelist (CD) Album By Robert Forster (Artist)
1   If It Rains
2   Demon Days
3   Pandanus
4   Did She Overtake You
5   Evangelist, The
6   Let Your Light In Babe
7   Place To Hideaway, A
8   Don't Touch Anything
9   It Ain't Easy
10   From Ghost Town
 

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Review

Spin (p.108) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e's got a gift for importing cosmic subjects like mortality and transcendence into vivid everyday vignettes..."
Uncut (p.101) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "['From Ghost Town' is] a meditation on loss, suspended on a plaintive piano figure....It's lovely, and lonely, and utterly heartbreaking."
Q (Magazine) (p.135) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The songs] sparkle with a wit, love of language and offbeat invention that has always characterised Forster's best work."
Mojo (Publisher) (p.114) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Forster lays his emotions on his sleeve. Beautiful and heartfelt."
Blender (Magazine) (p.76) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Conjuring doubts and hopes with focused tenderness, Forster's writing has never been surer."
Paste (magazine) (p.61) - "THE EVANGELIST defies the odds but delivering an album at once haunted by McLennan's memory and made magical by his implied contribution."

Title Note

Essentially a musical memorial to Robert Forster's former Go-Betweens compadre, Grant McLennan, THE EVANGELIST is a stirring work of mature indie songcraft. With three tracks co-written by McLennan, penned just before he died, and the last Go-Betweens rhythm section (Glenn Thompson and Adele Pickvance) providing the backbeat, Forster's first solo outing in 11 years is thoroughly haunted by the past. The material--the strongest of Forster's solo output--deals unflinchingly with the nature of loss and death over a canvas of simple but affecting arrangements.

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Robert Forster's first album in 11 years, The Evangelist finds the Go-Betweens co-founder as winsome and haunting as ever. Nearly two years after the death of Grant McLennan, his fellow Go-Between and writing partner of 30 years, Forster has produced an album that is both wildly progressive and haunted by the ghost of his artistic soul mate. "Demon Days," co-written with McLennan shortly before he died, is an all too telling spine tingling journey into oblivion. "Pandanus" and "Did She Overtake You?" are lively juggernauts that delightfully reprise the rhythmic tensions of Spring Hill Fair. "The Evangelist" is a wistful cousin to "He Lives My Life" (from The Friends of Rachel Worth) and "From Ghost Town" is a deeply personal and poignant farewell to a lost brother. Throughout, The Evangelist is a masterpiece of honesty and compassion.

Forster himself describes The Evangelist this way, "I wasn't sure if I was ever going to make another record but this summer it just materialized. It's a direct record. I've written seven of the songs, and three are co-written with Grant. Adele and Glenn from The Go-Betweens are with me. It's not Oceans Apart 2 - it's something else, but with trails going into the past and I'm proud of it."

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