Robert Forster

Artist Description

“I love it – very moving and Robert is in excellent voice.”

-Allmusic Guide


After the death of Grant McLennan, his writing partner of twenty five years, Robert Forster was unsure if he would ever record again. The body of work he had assembled in their seminal band The Go-Betweens surpassed all their contemporaries in its quality and consistency. Many commentators have pronounced them the greatest ever Australian group. Yet here, in 2008, Forster returned with a stunning album, The Evangelist, that is both wildly progressive and haunted by the ghost of his soul mate. It offers the brave and heartrending insight of a man at the crossroads of his life that will find a place in the soul of anyone who has endured loss.  Like its predecessor, the Go-Betweens’ swan song Oceans Apart, it was produced by Mark Wallis and Dave Ruffy at Good Luck Studios in South London.  The songs daringly run the gamut of emotion and arrangement; ‘Demon Days’, co-written with Grant McLennan shortly before he died, is a spine tingling journey into oblivion.  Throughout, The Evangelist is a masterpiece of honesty and
compassion.