16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens

16 Lovers Lane, the sixth studio album by the Go-Betweens, came out on Beggars Banquet in 1988 after the band quit London and moved back to Australia. Bassist Robert Vickers didn't make the trip and John Willsteed took his place, joining Robert Forster, Grant McLennan, drummer Lindy Morrison and multi-instrumentalist Amanda Brown. They cut it at Studios 301 in Sydney between Christmas 1987 and autumn 1988.

It's their most luminous record: bright, airy arrangements and melodies that glow like late-afternoon sun. "Streets of Your Town" is the jangling gem, and "Was There Anything I Could Do?" was a No. 16 hit on the American modern rock chart. It was also the last record from that band: they split in 1989, and SBS later featured it in The Great Australian Albums.

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