The impetus to record The Evangelist came from three songs left behind by McLennan, including "Demon Days," whose half-finished lyrics were completed by Forster. "The half whispered hopes/The dreams that we smoked/Puffed up and ran/As only dreams can/Dreamt by the young/Sparks to be sung/in places so bright/But something's not right/Something's gone wrong."

With its hushed vocal and tingling celeste interludes, "Demon Days" is one of the most haunting songs in recent memory. But even as The Evangelist is grounded in a deep sense of loss, it projects a powerful uplift, tapping into the positive energy that drove Forster and McLennan as artists, individually and together. The presence of other surviving Go-Betweens, bassist Adele Pickvance and drummer Glenn Thompson, and the producers of Oceans Apart, Mark Wallis and David Ruffy, enhances that feeling.

"'Demon Days' is an amazing song," said Forster. "There's pain in it, yes, but also this sense of glory, in being able to continue this amazing thing. For me to be able to present a song like that the way I wanted was the other side of a double-edged sword. That carried me through a lot of the album, and a lot of work I've done in the last two years."..."We wanted to write adventurous pop music," said Forster."Enough of that 4/4 bang. We were interested in pushing things, pushing the outer structure, having fun with it."

Read the full feature in the final issue of No Depression (out Spring 2008)