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Spring Hill Fair

THE REVIEW

Spring Hill Fair: the album you don't expect!
After Before Hollywood, it was hard to repeat such success, but for Robert Forster and Grant McLennan, creating great music is a simple feat.
You can tell right from the opening song, that splendid example of brilliant and captivating pop that is Bachelor Kisses, a true pride of Grant McLennan that kicks off the classic album, which is anything but classic, in other words, the album you don't expect!
Indeed, after the opening track begins a series of strange, fascinating, and engaging songs that envelop you in all their magic... thus, we move through the dark Five Words, the compelling The Old Way Out with its formidable chorus, the quirky You've Never Lived, the beautiful psychedelic pop ballad Part Company that closes the first part of the album in which Robert Forster plays the undisputed leading role.

The second part begins with Slow, Slow Music, another gem by McLennan that pays tribute to early Byrne, then it's Forster again with the incredible Draining The Pool For You, a song of unusual beauty that fades away carrying its intricate mysteries, making room for River of Money and Unkind and Unwise, by McLennan, of which one is a sort of ballad, half spoken and half not, half folk and half something else, while the other piece is a lush pop that grabs you and doesn't let go. The highlight of the album is that Man O'Sand To Girl O'Sea where the talents of the two authors reach their peak and perfection!

Spring Hill Fair is a unique album in its genre, music with an unmistakable flavor, beautiful, joyful, paranoid, mysterious, and relaxing and hysterical at the same time... and above all that unmistakable mark... the mark of the Go-Betweens.