Intermission (Dig)

Robert Forster | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 19, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Beggars Banquet Us
• ASIN: B000PA9PVU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #264,328 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Malibu 69 - Grant McLennan

2. Cryin' Love - Robert Forster

3. Lighting Fires - Grant McLennan

4. 121 - Robert Forster

5. One Plus One - Grant McLennan

6. Falling Star - Robert Forster

7. Hot Water - Grant McLennan

8. Baby Stones - Robert Forster

9. In Your Bright Ray - Grant McLennan

10. I Can Do - Robert Forster

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The songwriting partnership of Grant McLennan and Robert Forster made the Go-Betweens one of the 1980s' greatest unsung bands. And here they are, Forster and McLennan, their solo works abbreviated and joined together. Forster's a leaper, gobbling his vocal lines and galloping atop a quick beat on "121," then slows down for slinky, wry weariness on "I've Been Looking for Somebody" and even a touch of Lou Reed in "Beyond Their Law." Simply put, Forster's aesthetically hurried, under pressure, where McLennan's at ease. The late Grant McLennan's voyage here is more appreciable, from the polished, new-wave-tinted pop of "Haven't I Been A Fool" to the crisp, visionary, starkness of "Hot Water" and "Horsebreaker Star." The doleful fiddle in the former song and McLennan's mature voice make it so memorable, and the sheer austerity and haunting electric guitar backdrops make the latter magnetic. The collective weight here is that of two veritable songwriting geniuses, one taken too soon. --Andrew Bartlett

Product Description

This double disc release celebrates the best of the solo recordings released by Robert and Grant during their seven-year hiatus from The Go-Betweens. Each selected the thirteen songs on their individual CD. While Grant's disc is a chronological journey through his catalog, Robert elected to mix up the order. The albums will be issued individually in standard packaging this fall. "They remain one of rock's most pleasurable hand-me-down discoveries" - Entertainment Weekly.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars introduction to a pair of genius, March 25, 2008

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Eduardo Ferrandis Pereprez - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intermission (Dig) (Audio CD)

I got all the Go beetweens albums, and I wanted to know how where the albums of their leaders alone, so I decided to get the "Intermission" album.
I must say that all the songs are great and they are as good as those of the go beetweens.
Forster is more arty/pop and Mc Lennan was just a genius of the melodies and guitars.
Now I want to get all their albums.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars in between right at the end, July 18, 2007

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Boxodreams "[e-mail]" (district of columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intermission (Dig) (Audio CD)

Planned as a way station between album projects during a year off, "Intermission" becomes a tombstone and artifact for the Go-Betweens with the death of Grant McLennan, suddenly, at age 49 at his home on a night he had gathered his dearest friends to a house party. Robert Forster, his brother in peaceful arms, was there that night too. It's hard to hear these songs from the sojourning solo years, few aimless and barren, most rich with growth and reward, without feeling the melancholy tug of death, unless, of course, you are new to the music. Then what you get is a dream, smart, well-realized, fun, at times shimmery, at times bookish guitar pop from two of the best as they found their way through daily living to the other side that was the happy reunion of the band for three more albums before Grant's end. The cover looks too much like a headstone with a name in a resting place in the ground, a monument is not for pop, even sophisticated, keepable pop such as this. Mostly, I think, it's a thing for friends, a keepsake. "Intermission" was meant as a way of discovery for all the new fans that found them with their last Go-Betweens release, "Oceans Apart." Thinking that you have new fans, and not just a lot of old ones rediscovering you, is a thought full of hope and light as you push into 50 with all your musical instincts and thought process intact, but the deeply engrossed fans the two of them long inspired will already have the original solo albums or want to seek them out. Not all of the work on those solo records is worthy of the obsession, but this just skims that very fine surface, and that desire to dive in and breathe deeply is what loving a great band is all about. apart from mourning, there is still magic in here.