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英国ラフ・トレードから83年にリリースされた2ndアルバム。難解な変拍子を多用した、緊張感あふれる傑作。ボーナス・ディスクには未発表4曲、シングル曲4曲と映像トラックを収録。
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Always more ambitious than most of their contemporaries, The Go-Betweens quit their native Australia for England just after their first album.
Before Hollywood is a major leap forward in terms of confidence and proficiency, and contains, in Grant McLennan's half-spoken "Cattle & Cane" (a sombre, half-spoken remembrance of a Queensland childhood), the first of The Go-Betweens' many resounding classics. Here, The Go-Betweens are still experimenting with slightly abrasive, askance rhythms that they aren't quite up to playing--it would take until the next album,
Spring Hill Fair, for Forster and McLennan to properly realise that what they were good at was conventionally-structured pop songs--but there are still more great things here than most bands managed in a career; "Ask", "Two Step, Step Out" and "Dusty In Here", to name but three.
--Andrew Mueller