The Friends of Rachel Worth is the seventh album by Brisbane

Brisbane

Brisbane is the capital and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbane's metropolitan area has a population of over 2 million, and the South East Queensland urban conurbation, centred around Brisbane, encompasses a population of...

 indie band The Go-Betweens

The Go-Betweens

The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...

, released 12 years after their sixth, 16 Lovers Lane

16 Lovers Lane

16 Lovers Lane was the sixth album by Australian indie pop group The Go-Betweens, released in 1988 by Beggars Banquet Records. Prior to the recording of the album, longtime bassist Robert Vickers left the band when the other group members decided to return to Australia after having spent several...

.
For this album they were joined by all members of American indie rock

Indie rock

Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that originated in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s. Indie rock is extremely diverse, with sub-genres that include lo-fi, post-rock, math rock, indie pop, dream pop, noise rock, space rock, sadcore, riot grrrl and emo, among others...

 bands Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney

Sleater-Kinney was an alternative rock band from Portland, Oregon that formed in 1994. Originally formed in Olympia, Washington, the group's name is derived from Sleater-Kinney Road, Interstate 5 off ramp #108 in Lacey, Washington, the location of one of their early practice spaces. They were a...

 and Quasi

Quasi

Quasi is an American indie rock band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1993 by ex-husband and wife Sam Coomes and Janet Weiss . Since 2007 the group has been a trio, following the addition of bassist Joanna Bolme.-History:In 1990 , Coomes, Weiss, and Brad Pedinov formed the band Motorgoat...

 as well as new bassist Adele Pickvance. The album was recorded in Portland, Oregon at Jackpot! Studios.

The album received critical acclaim, receiving 4.5 stars from Allmusic.

Track listing

(All music by Robert Forster

Robert Forster (musician)

Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...

 and Grant McLennan

Grant McLennan

Grant William McLennan was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977...

)

1. "Magic in Here" (lyrics, McLennan) – 3:52
2. "Spirit" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:59
3. "The Clock" (lyrics, McLennan) – 4:06
4. "German Farmhouse" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:51
5. "He Lives My Life" (lyrics, Forster) – 3:58
6. "Heart and Home" (lyrics, McLennan) – 3:13
7. "Surfing Magazines" (lyrics, Forster) – 4:34
8. "Orpheus Beach" (lyrics, McLennan) – 4:48
9. "Going Blind" (lyrics, McLennan) – 2:56
10. "When She Sang About Angels" (lyrics, Forster) – 4:31

Personnel

• Grant McLennan
  Grant McLennan
  Grant William McLennan was an Australian singer-songwriter with the alternative rock band The Go-Betweens, which he co-founded with Robert Forster in Brisbane, Australia in 1977...
  
   - vocals, guitar
• Robert Forster
  Robert Forster (musician)
  Robert Forster is an Australian singer-songwriter, best known for his work with songwriting partner Grant McLennan, with whom he co-founded The Go-Betweens.Forster grew up in Brisbane, Australia attending Brisbane Grammar School...
  
   - vocals, guitar, organ
• Adele Pickvance - bass, vocals
• Janet Weiss
  Janet Weiss
  Janet Lee Weiss was the drummer of now defunct Sleater-Kinney and is currently a member of Quasi and Wild Flag. She was the drummer for Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, leaving after the album Mirror Traffic.-Early life:...
  
   - drums, vocals
• Sam Coomes
  Sam Coomes
  Samuel J. Coomes is an American musician, and currently one-third of the Portland-area indie band Quasi, along with drummer and ex-wife Janet Weiss and bassist Joanna Bolme...
  
   - keyboards

With:

• Carrie Brownstein
  Carrie Brownstein
  Carrie Rachel Brownstein , is an American musician, writer, and actress, best known as a guitarist and vocalist in the now-defunct Portland, Oregon-based band Sleater-Kinney...
  
   - guitar on "Going Blind"
• Corin Tucker
  Corin Tucker
  Corin Lisa Tucker is a singer and guitarist, best known for her work with rock band Sleater-Kinney.- Early life :In the early 1990s, Tucker attended Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, where she studied film, political economy, and social change...
  
  - vocals on "Going Blind"
• Brent Arnold - cello
• Jen Chorowhas - violin

External links

• The Go-Betweens Official Site - Gobetweens.net