Robert Forster
Danger In The Past

THE REVIEW

Anyone who loves "cult music" knows this brilliant songwriter and his legendary band well.
Danger In The Past (1990) is the first work Robert Forster composed away from Grant McLennan, and although it was initially met with a rather lukewarm reception (probably due to the melancholic vein that characterizes the record), now, 15 years after its release, we can quietly affirm that this album was certainly one of the best works of the past decade.
The beautiful cover immediately suggests you are facing a straightforward and no-frills album, focused on ingenious production full of insights, entrusted to the minds of the Bad Seeds, and played by a few highly capable musicians, including the already mentioned Mick Harvey, with Thomas Wydler on drums and Hugo Race on guitar.

All the tracks on the album are absolutely beautiful, and as if that weren't enough, Forster's precious voice only makes his already stunning compositions more charming and brilliant, taking us along roads of broken hearts and high-strung girls, dusty roads lined with river villages and torn curtains, lovers engulfed in darkness wondering if in the deepest dark Towens Van Zandt or Guy Clark sings better, while all the lonely hearts are trapped in an eternal Sunday Morning (probably the same one of the underground velvets) and then again, Dylan-esque reminiscences while in the background, just like everything, spring slowly turns to autumn. For eternity.