"It's all different now," Robert Forster sings on the closing track of his new album The Evangelist, his first since the unexpected death of his songwriting partner Grant McLennan.

The song, "From Ghost Town," is an elegy to Forster's friend, with whom he played for nearly 30 years in the Brisbane, Australia-based band the Go-Betweens.

In those years, the two forged a sound that combined the thoughtful tuneful folk rock of the 1960s with some of the more angular and challenging sounds of post-punk.

"After Grant died, some close friends wrote notes to me," Forster said in an interview. "The first line of (one) letter was 'It's all different now.' It was really a bold thing to write to someone."

- Derek Caney

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