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- Summary: The first album in seven years for the Go-Betweens co-founder features contributions from the John Steel Singers and his wife, Karin Baumler.
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- Record Label: Tapete Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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| Let Me Imagine You | |
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| There was silence things we didn't know There was romance where I couldn't go Please don't tell me let me dream and guess Please don't tell me let... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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UncutSep 17, 2015Strikingly immediate, yet also rewarding repeated immersion, the 10 tracks here are, just as Forster intended, amusing, infectious and relaxed. [Oct 2015, p.65]
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Sep 17, 2015Songs To Play (the allusion to Leonard Cohen in the title, surely, is deliberate) is Robert Forster at his most singular.
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MagnetSep 17, 2015Songs To Play sounds musically assured, but it's that double-edged sense of humor that proves that Forster is truly back. [No. 124, p.54]
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Sep 24, 2015In general, arch suits him better than earnest or sentimental, but the sombre mood of closing song Disaster in Motion is nigglingly affecting, its narrow-eyed survey of the flow and mulch of life laced with ambiguity.
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Oct 6, 2015Songs to Play may not be as incandescent and life affirming as the best of the wonderful Go-Betweens but at times it gets close, which is high praise indeed.
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Oct 22, 2015Songs to Play needs to be acknowledged as an album from a unique songwriter who just so happened to catch his sound so damn well that it makes a strong case for Forster’s artistic life beyond the Go-Betweens.
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MojoSep 17, 2015The album is mainly archetypal Forster. [Oct 2015, p.92]
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