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Send Me a Lullaby ReviewFirst of all, the track listing on the second disc is wrong. "I Need Two" and "Heads" are really one song called "I Need Two Heads". "It Took You A Week" was a demo version of disc 1's "The Girls Have Moved", but they elected not to include it apparently. "Throw It Away" isn't there either. And contrary to the description, the 12 tracks are previously unreleased, but some a-sides, b-sides, tracks from a semi-legit album of demos and a couple unreleased numbers.
This is the first Go-Betweens album and features them at their first stage of consistently recognizable competence. (Earlier material is available on '78 til '79: The Lost Album.) Grant and Robert have more or less disowned this album, and they did move on quickly after recording it - their next album (Before Hollywood) has just faint traces of the plentiful angular and minimalistic moments here. It's also easy to see how these songs could have been performed and arranged in much more sophisticated fashion on later records.
On the other hand, I don't think it matters much; this is still a fine and deeply interesting record. The band play well enough to have established something of their own sound, but they still wear their contemporaneous influences on their sleeves - in this case, the more literary of the early NYC punk crowd (Patti Smith, Television, Talking Heads) and the artsier of the early UK postpunk bands such as the Subway Sect. They've admitted as much and the aural evidence is there.
This is Robert's album in a way unlike all future Go-Betweens records (which were split pretty evenly down the middle.) Take that as a cue that even the most "pop" of the songs here do not adhere strongly to normal pop aesthetics; ideas are expressed in purely musical terms in a way that no future Go-Betweens' record matches. The drum solo in the middle of "Eight Pictures", odd saxophone parts, embryonic attempts at vocal harmony . . . they add up to a deeply impressionistic recording, bursting with ideas. The second disc is much the same, though by its nature somewhat less cohesive.
I'm glad this is the first Go-Betweens album I heard. It helps explain how the band later made use of slightly unconventional methods for conventional gain. The fun and riddles widely on display here confirm that the same sensibility underpins most of what comes later - it's just that their famous very dry sense of humor makes that a bit tough to unveil. In short, it's a great introduction to the band and a fine place to start.Send Me a Lullaby Overview

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