This eighth solo LP by the former Go-Betweens man brings powerful, intelligent, emotional bittersweet songwriting in a largely acoustic home setup involving his family members, and foreshadows his partner’s diagnosis with cancer. Oddly apt then that Karin Bäumler’s health situation is encapsulated in the standout track, She’s A Fighter, written beforehand but recorded since, alongside daughter Loretta and son Louis, from the band The Goon Sax, with Karin on backing vocals. Other highlights are Tender Years, I Don’t Do Drugs I Do Time, There’s a Reason To Live, and When I Was A Young Man. A quieter, more stripped back, folk album than 2019’s more rock and pop Inferno album, but Forster’s enduring talent for great songwriting remains. Out on Tapete Records.
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