Send Me A Lullaby [Remastered + Bonus ECD]

After a critically acclaimed trio of 7" singles--two self-produced and one on the influential Scottish Postcard label--Australia's the Go-Betweens recorded their first album, SEND ME A LULLABY, with new drummer Lindy Morrison augmenting the duo of Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. The songs on this album explore a jerking, spare style of folk music that is both oddly unsettling and demanding of attention at the same time.
The most obvious example of this effect is Forster's "Eight Pictures", a musically-sparse tale of an unattainable girl stalked by the photography-obsessed narrator that has two incongruous elements--a bizarre, massive-sounding drum solo and an extremely out-of-place lyrical joke. Other standouts include the clear, distant guitar structure of McLennan's "One Thing Can Hold Us", the pulsing, bass-heavy "All About Strength", and the faux-country elements filling out the rather odd tempo of "Ride". Though the Go-Betweens may not have been too polished at the time, knew exactly the kind of music that they wanted the world to hear.|