Grant McLennan - HORSEBREAKER STAR
Let’s see.
Let’s see why an
album as good as Vauxhall & I got
dumped and Dummy was not even
considered. The reason is that Grant McLennan’s third solo album has 19
(nineteen!) songs of such beautifully crafted perfection that I’m simply left
with no choice.
I guess every Go-Betweens
fan had to play this game at some point in the 90s. You took a solo album from
Robert and a corresponding album from Grant. You chose five best songs from the
former and you chose five best songs from the latter and what you got as a
result was an imaginary Go-Betweens LP that would have been perfect. For me, Horsebreaker Star changed that.
Quite simply, I
couldn’t do it with this album. I could even do it with Danger In The Past (“Dear Black Dream”, for instance, is good but what a mess), but I have no idea how you pick and choose from a record of this
consistency?..
Really, you hold on
to what you’ve got. And one million verses of “What Went Wrong” seems barely
enough…
