Robert Forster: Strawberries - Spectrum Culture

Robert Forster: Strawberries - Spectrum Culture

Robert Forster is not the songwriter one would associate with sincerity, but time and experience have a habit of changing things in people. For Forster, those experiences have been marked with strife: there is, of course, the sudden end of the Go-Betweens after the death of Grant McLennan in 2006, but Forster also went deeply personal on 2023’s The Candle and the Flame, which contended with his mother’s death and his wife Karin Baumler’s cancer …