The Candle and the FlameRobert Forster · 2023

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8.0

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1She's a Fighter 2Tender Years 3It's Only Poison 4The Roads 5I Don't Do Drugs I Do Time 6Always 7There's a Reason to Live 8Go Free 9When I Was a Young Man

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guardian

8.0

“The veteran US critic Robert Christgau once called Robert Forster and Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens the greatest songwriting partnership working (it was the 1980s at the time). But the Australian band never made it big. McLennan is no longer with us. Forster, meanwhile, has a body of work attesting to his continued wry excellence, his songs replete with clear-eyed craft and emotional heft. Bu”

pitchfork

7.5

“Accompanied by family members and former bandmates, the Go-Betweens songwriter crafts a sparse but deeply felt album.”