Forever Now by The Psychedelic Furs

Forever Now, the third album by the Psychedelic Furs, came out on Columbia on 24 September 1982, and it's the sound of a band pulling itself together after a rough patch. They'd gone through a messy run of lineup changes, shrinking from six members down to a four-piece, and they went into the spring 1982 sessions with a new producer in Todd Rundgren, working with them for the first time.

Rundgren left his fingerprints everywhere. He played on the record himself, brought in cello and marimba, and recruited Flo & Eddie to sing backing vocals, and the result is a band still full of sneer and gloom but suddenly dressed in richer, stranger colors. The ten songs sway between swirling grandeur and dry, nervy tension, with that ragged, smoke-stained lead voice holding the center. "Love My Way" is the hit and the heart of it, a cool, gliding, hypnotic song, and it has never really left the countdowns. "President Gas" is sardonic and sprawling, "Forever Now" broods and rumbles, and "Goodbye" and "Run and Run" push the band's edgier side.

It marked a turning point for the Furs, the moment they grew into a band that knew exactly what it could do. A 20th anniversary reissue added six related bonus tracks.

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