Forever by Cracker

Forever, Cracker's follow-up to Garage D'Or, came out on Virgin, the same label that had launched them with their 1992 debut, and it finds David Lowery and Johnny Hickman, the singer and guitarist who started the band in 1990, still happily refusing to stay in one lane. This is alternative rock with dust on its boots: a little punk sneer, a little country twang, some blues grit and the odd psychedelic curlicue, all of it held together by Lowery's dry, sidelong delivery and Hickman's tangy guitar.

"Shine" is the one that stuck, a warm, rolling tune that wears its hooks lightly and lets the melody do the work. O' Cracker Where Art Thou? came next.

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