- Rock
- 2002
- Buy the CD
Reviewed by R. David Smola
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Forever is, song for song, a solid record and quite the rebound from the surprisingly inconsistent and disappointing Gentleman's Blues from 1998. Where that record felt as if the members of Cracker were going through the motions, the new record and the four years seem to have re-energized Mr. Lowery and mates. From the swirling introduction to the "Brides of Neptune" to the last rap lines of "What You're Missing," the record ebbs in and out of riffs, styles and sounds, but it is surprisingly cohesive.
This Cracker record makes you tap your foot, sing out loud and laugh a little at the stuff that Lowery comes up with: telling an ex-girlfriend to go back to Florida in "Don't Bring Us Down"; relating how cool someone is by stating that they are as "cool as Burt Bacharach singing 'What's Up Pussycat?'" in "Shine"; and emphasizing the physical nature of a lover as "so beautiful that you should be guarded by monkeys" in a song oddly titled, "Guarded by Monkeys." The band rap in the last song of "What You're Missing" is hysterical, as well as being a dead-on description of who and what Cracker is about. Forever is what music should be: fun, easy to hum and witty.
Other Cracker reviews:
Countrysides (2003)
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