~ The Go-Betweens
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~ The Go-Betweens
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~ The Go-Betweens
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~ The Go-Betweens
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~ G.W. McLennan
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The Go-Betweens approached Tallulah quite rightly convinced that their previous album, Liberty Belle, should have made them superstars (it didn't). Perhaps because of this, they over-reach themselves once or twice here--needlessly substituting a drum machine for Lindy Morrison on a couple of tracks, and coming up with one ill-conceived and transparent attempt at writing a mid-1980s pop hit ("Cut It Out"). Elsewhere, however, business as usual: beautifully written ballads ("Bye Bye Pride"), pop fizzbombs that could have been immense hits for The Monkees ("I Just Get Caught Out") and arch, evocative character sketches ("The House Jack Kerouac Built", "The Clarke Sisters"). Decorated throughout with the oboe and violin of newly inducted Go-Between Amanda Brown, Tallulah is an absorbingly flawed diamond. --Andrew Mueller
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The fifth Go-Betweens album, TALLULAH (named after film actress Tallulah Bankhead), introduced a fifth member to the band. Violinist Amanda Brown cemented the band's move toward the inclusion of strings that had begun with their last album. With this addition, the interplay between instruments and vocals is even more lush and pretty than ever, even on vaguely unsettling tracks like "The Clarke Sisters".
Standoutsinclude "Right Here", a pristine pop classic complete with soaring violins, a catchy chorus, and jangling guitars; "I Just Get Caught Out", a rocker propelled along a popping bassline; the beautiful "Bye Bye Pride", one of the band's morespectacular songs that captures a moment so well you can see it ("A white moon appears/Like a hole in the sky/The mangroves go quiet"), and "Hope Then Strife", with its spoken verses and sung choruses punctuated by Lindy Morrison's spare drumming and some gorgeous flamenco guitar.
The Go-Betweens approached Tallulah quite rightly convinced that their previous album, Liberty Belle, should have made them superstars (it didn't). Perhaps because of this, they over-reach themselves once or twice here--needlessly substituting a drum machine for Lindy Morrison on a couple of tracks, and coming up with one ill-conceived and transparent attempt at writing a mid-1980s pop hit ("Cut It Out"). Elsewhere, however, business as usual: beautifully written ballads ("Bye Bye Pride"), pop fizzbombs that could have been immense hits for The Monkees ("I Just Get Caught Out") and arch, evocative character sketches ("The House Jack Kerouac Built", "The Clarke Sisters"). Decorated throughout with the oboe and violin of newly inducted Go-Between Amanda Brown, Tallulah is an absorbingly flawed diamond. --Andrew Mueller
CD Description
The fifth Go-Betweens album, TALLULAH (named after film actress Tallulah Bankhead), introduced a fifth member to the band. Violinist Amanda Brown cemented the band's move toward the inclusion of strings that had begun with their last album. With this addition, the interplay between instruments and vocals is even more lush and pretty than ever, even on vaguely unsettling tracks like "The Clarke Sisters".
Standoutsinclude "Right Here", a pristine pop classic complete with soaring violins, a catchy chorus, and jangling guitars; "I Just Get Caught Out", a rocker propelled along a popping bassline; the beautiful "Bye Bye Pride", one of the band's morespectacular songs that captures a moment so well you can see it ("A white moon appears/Like a hole in the sky/The mangroves go quiet"), and "Hope Then Strife", with its spoken verses and sung choruses punctuated by Lindy Morrison's spare drumming and some gorgeous flamenco guitar.
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