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Feb 13, 2023Forster produces some of the most direct and affecting songs of his singular career. ... Forster’s observational directness and simple language are always in service to the deep feeling in his songs and few better imbue the quotidian joys of domestic life and the power of memory with such poetry.
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Feb 3, 2023This is Forster in excelsis. [Mar 2023, p.22]
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Feb 6, 2023Perhaps this generous album’s biggest theme is the passage of time, and recognising distances travelled.
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Feb 3, 2023Flamboyant on stage, behind the scenes he sought out, and achieved, a quiet, stable life. If that sounds boring, you should hear him sing about it. It’s not very rock’n’roll. It’s a lot more interesting and enduring than that.
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Feb 3, 2023The songs are honest, deep, and direct, but never heavy-handed. Mostly, The Candle and the Flame finds Forster taking stock of his long and storied life, and grasping at some of the many moments of love and beauty he experienced along the way.
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MojoFeb 3, 2023The past might be intoxicating, but The Candle And The Flame - lucid, conversational, immediate - is beautifully present in its moment. [Mar 2023, p.84]
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Feb 3, 2023Forster all too humbly paints himself as a modest talent next to his late foil’s melodic genius, yet this eighth solo outing is packed as ever with minimal, carefully chiselled, acoustic-thrumming arrangements, topped by extraordinary lyric writing.
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Feb 8, 2023The songs sound as fresh as morning air through open kitchen windows.
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