Friends of Rachel Worth - The Go-Betweens
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  • Summary: The first new release in 12 years from the influential Australian band features founding members Robert Forster and Grant McLennan with backing from members of Sleater-Kinney.

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  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
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  1. Sonicnet
    90
    The Friends of Rachel Worth is the first new Go-Betweens album in a dozen years, and, remarkably, it's as if they were never away.... an ever-so-slightly-updated sound with a hint of lo-fi -- something the Go-Betweens pioneered on their earliest albums, before they found their more renowned intimate style.
  2. Select
    80
    An album that sits together with silken cohesion... (Oct 2000, p.108)
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  3. New Musical Express (NME)
    80
    ...a spontaneity here that replaces the formality of tradition with something more vital. Like a snapshot's moment captured, the gap between composition and recording seems to have been reduced to nothing, and it's here that the group hit their mark.
  4. Uncut
    60
    Signals a further burst of creativity, suggesting there are still great things to come from the Australian Lennon & McCartney. [Jul 2002, p.123]
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  1. SaulB
    10
    Fantastic. One of their best. Not a dud in the nunch. As good as liberty bell. A very mature pop record.

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