Robert Forster

About the artist

Although commonly considered the darker, artier half of the creative force of the Go-Betweens, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Robert Forster has a knack for crafty pop songs along with the brooding ballads he contributed to the Go-Betweens' albums, while his solo career blended a healthy mix of both styles. By the time the band reunited in 2000, Forster had issued four solo albums beginning with 1993's Calling from a Country Phone (1993). The band's reunion in 2000 netted three critically acclaimed LPs before McLennan's untimely death in 2006. Forster soldiered on as a music journalist and author, then resumed recording and releasing uniquely thoughtful and melodic solo albums that included 2008's McLennan-haunted The Evangelist, 2015's rambling Songs to Play, and 2019's introspective Inferno.