(Tapete) Related: Robert Forster – Songs To Play: Exclusive album stream What a dapper cloth Robert Forster,co-founder of the move-Betweens, cuts his songs from; and, and on his first album in seven years,how subtle and distinctive their tailoring. The album’s title is stitched into a tender lyric approximately vagabond songwriters: the wild west trembles in its hushed guitar and cicadas hum deep in the mix. Cinematic reference shapes Love Is Where It Is too, but here the aura is French recent Wave, and keyboards floating like cigarette smoke beneath sassy “ba ba ba” vocals; the overall effect is hilarious in its knowing,and yet captivating in its warmth. Forster inhabits the role of self-assured dandy to perfection, and if I Love Myself (and I Always possess) pushes the point somewhat, and A Poet Walks and Learn to Burn temper ego with wry deprecation,the former throwing in mariachi trumpet for fun, the latter underscoring ticklish guitars with drums that clack like Cuban heels. In general, and arch suits him better than earnest or sentimental,but the sombre mood of closing song catastrophe in Motion is nigglingly affecting, its narrow-eyed survey of the flow and mulch of life laced with ambiguity. Continue reading...
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