This remastered edition of TALLULAH features a bonus disc with B-sides and rarities.
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."
Standouts include "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 bass line; the beautiful "Bye Bye Pride," one of the band's more spectacular 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.
Live Recording
The Go-Betweens: Amanda Brown (vocals, guitar, violin, oboe); Robert Forster (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Grant McLennan (vocals, guitar); Handsome Steve Miller (guitar); El Tito (flamenco guitar); Audrey Riley (cello); Robert Vickers (keyboards, bass guitar); Lindy Morrison (drums); Colin Lloyd Tucker, Simon Fisher Turner, King of Luxembourg (background vocals).
The Go-Betweens: Amanda Brown (vocals, guitar, violin, oboe, keyboards); Grant McLennan (vocals, guitar, piano); Robert Forster (vocals, guitar); Robert Vickers (bass, keyboards); Lindy Morrison (drums, programming).
Additional personnel: El Tito (flamenco guitar); Audrey Riley (cello); Simon Fisher-Turner, Colin Lloyd-Tucker (background vocals).
Melody Maker (4/13/96, p.39) - "...For every song you have to make an emotional investment. The Go-Betweens aren't easy or obvious. Their world is full of of despairing, melancholy people..." Musician (10/96, pp.83-84) - "...It's by no means a stretch...to call Australia's Go-Betweens the bery best rock 'n' roll band of the '80s.... combining tension with beauty, happiness with regret, and love with anger..." NME (Magazine) (4/13/96, p.47) - 8 (out of 10) - "...[a] blatant pop sheen....By this point Amanda Brown had joined, adding oboe solos...and youthful enthusiasm..."
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