Just a quick post to share the shock of hearing Grant McLennan, singer of The Go-Betweens, has suddenly died in his sleep aged only 48, one year after releasing Oceans Apart, the latest album of the band, once again critically acclaimed and well received by the audience. The Australian band went from the new wave success of Cattle And Cane to the guitar pop hit of Streets Of Your Town, with a break between the late 80s and the late 90s which gave space to the solo careers of Mc Lennan and Robert Foster.
I don't have all their albums, but their compilation '1978-1990' is one of my favourite records and I've always liked the most of the stuff I've heard, the earlier sounding like quality new wave and then developing into something which could have been placed between the lighter guitar pop of The Smiths and the sophisticated approach of Prefab Sprout.
Their music always sounded like anticipating the next step in the trend of alternative guitar pop and has been influential to bands like REM and Belle And Sebastian, though I've always found The Go-Betweens far superior in talent and style...
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