The Go-Betweens: Oceans Apart

Tracklisting:

Here Comes A City
Finding You
Born To A Family
No Reason To Cry
Boundary Rider
Darlinghurst Nights
Lavender
The Statue
This Night’s For You
The Mountains Near Dellray

The first pressing of the album features a bonus disc containing the following live tracks, recorded live at the Barbican in London on 27th June 2004:

People Say
He Lives My Life
The Wrong Road
Bye Bye Pride
When People Are Dead
Streets Of Your Town*

*not included on the German pressing of the album.
The UK version of the album includes the video for Here Comes A City on the bonus disc.

Playing on the album:

Robert Forster: vocals, guitars, piano, organ
Grant McLennan: vocals, guitars
Adele Pickvance: bass, keyboards, backing vocals
Glenn Thompson: drums, keyboards, guitar, backing vocals

with:

Tom Rees-Roberts: flugelhorn
Trevor Mires: trombone
David Powell: tuba
Duncan Lamont: clarinet
Dave Ruffy: keyboards, percussion

Produced and mixed by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy at Good Luck Studios, London
except Boundary Rider recorded by Neil Coombe at The White Room Recording Studio, Brisbane

The album is released on the following labels:

UK & Ireland: Lomax Records (25th April 2005)
Spain: Mushroom Pillow (26th April 2005)
Denmark: Kick Music (26th April 2005)
Rest of Europe: Tuition (26th April 2005)
Australia & New Zealand: EMI Australia (1st May 2005)
USA & Canada:Yep Roc Records (3rd May 2005)
Japan: Wonderground

The album will be released on vinyl by Tuition on 26th April 2005 and by Yep Roc in May 2005.

Oceans Apart complete lyrics

Album Reviews

UK:

Mojo (May 2005 edition)
Uncut (May 2005 edition)
Q (May 2005 edition)
The Guardian (15th April 2005)
Record Collector (May 2005 edition)
The Independent (22nd April 2005)
The Sun (22nd April 2005)
Observer Music Monthly (24th April 2005)
The London Line (21st April 2005)
XFM
The Times (30th April 2005)
dotmusic (10th May 2005)

Scans of the printed versions of all the UK reviews can be found on the Lomax Records website

Germany:

Musikexpress (May 2005 edition)
Bloom (23rd April 2005)
Die Zeit (21st April 2005)
Der Spiegel
Frankfurter Rundschau
Popfrontal (25th April 2005)
Sound And Image
C6
Satt (April 2005)
Gaesteliste
Plattentests
Triggerfish
Brigitte
WOM Magazin (May 2005)
stern.de
sallys.net

Spain:

IndyRock
PopChild.com

USA:

Rolling Stone (April 2005)
entertainment Weekly (25th April 2005)
Eye.net (28th April 2005)
shakingthrough.net (6th May 2005)
Village Voice (10th May 2005)
Stylus (12th May 2005)
Pitchfork (17th May 2005)
Village Voice (24th May 2005)
AllMusic Guide (May 2005)
Lost At Sea
Maximum Ink (May 2005)
The Pitch (16th June 2005)
riverfronttimes.com (6th July 2005>
Seattle Weekly (15th June 2005)

Poland:

Screenagers

Portugal:

Mondo Bizarre

Denmark:

DR Nyheder
Gaffa
Soundvenue
Jyllandsposten (28th April 2005)
Politiken (29th April 2005)

Australia:

The Telegraph (28th April 2005)
Sydney Morning Herald (29th April 2005)

Norway:

Dagbladet (26th April 2005)
Dagsavisen (26th April 2005)
Bergens Tidende (26th April 2005)
Adresseavisen (26th April 2005)
Aftenposten (3rd May 2005)

Austria:

Die Presse

Sweden:

Expressen.se
Svenska Dagbladet

Belgium:

Rif Raf

Japan:

The Japan Times (5th June 2005)

Finland:

SOUNDIweb (May 2005)

Interviews

The Morning Star (20th April 2005) scan of article
The Times (22nd April 2005)
Robiter (April 2005 edition)
Tarantula fanzine interview with Grant McLennan (April 2005)
Time Off
The Telegraph (28th April 2005)
Birmingham Evening Herald (29th April 2005)
Gaesteliste
sallys.net
Echo Online (25th May 2005)
Der Tagesspiegel (12th May 2005)
Frankfurter Rundschau (May 2005)
Pennyblackmusic.com (31st May 2005)
N24 (2nd June 2005)
Los Angeles Times (16th June 2005)
The Stranger (16th June 2005)
San Francisco Bay Guardian (June 2005)
Sydney Morning Herald (15th July 2005)
Time Off (August 2005)

Thanks to all who have sent links to articles - including Frank Webb, Cláudio Pedrosa, Kuba Ambrozewski, Austin McLean, Stefan Sahlander, Dutch Star Helder, Jean Hupperetz, John Stuart, Donat Tahiraj and all at the Go-Betweens record labels and management.