You'd be hard pressed to find a better pop album released in the year 2000 than The Friends of Rachel Worth. Featuring songs that are jangly and soaring, bitter and sweet, the record is a breath of fresh air from a band whose career seemed to have ended twelve years earlier. Whether or not Robert Forster and Grant McLennan will continue the Go-Betweens' unexpected second life remains to be seen. We can only hope they will introduce us to more friends like Rachel Worth.

Tony Peltier