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     Matsrep Member Username: Matsrep Post Number: 63 Registered: 10-2005 |
today: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/re cord_review/50325-the-evangelist 7.6 out of 10. | ||
| Rob Brookman Member Username: Rob_b Post Number: 1140 Registered: 08-2006 |
You beat me to it, Matsrep. I don't agree with a lot of the conclusions here, and the reviewer sort of dismisses two of my favorite songs on the album, but I guess it's a generally positive review. Although in typical Pitchfork emo-journalism fashion he takes the album-as-eulogy storyline and strokes and strangles it 'til it's blue in the face and ready to burst. But if it introduces a few kids to Mr. Forster and the GBs, it can't be all bad. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 1207 Registered: 10-2004 |
Yeah, the review is a bit simple-minded in its approach, sticking too closely to the McLennan angle, not really acknowledging the other layers that pertain more specifically to Forster. But in a way I'm kinda glad they bothered to review it (and any of the Go-Betweens mach II albums) at all. They're kind of selective with some of the lesser known oldies. | ||
| Alfredo L Soto Member Username: Alfred_soto Post Number: 18 Registered: 05-2005 |
It's a fine review, and in all fairness to Rob, I always skip "Don't Touch Anything" too. | ||
| Hugo Member Username: Hugo Post Number: 29 Registered: 06-2005 |
I like "Don't Touch Anything". Perhaps not his most original song though. I think the reviewer is right that in a way it's not a solo album, it's a Go-Betweens album in which Grant has only a ghostly presence. That makes it haunting, obviously, but incomplete too. In the listener (this listener anyway), there's a yearning to know what the album would have been like if Grant had stuck around long enough. There's an expectation that you'll hear Grant chiming in at some point. That tantalising quality is both the album's strength and its weakness. |