Robert Forster - Strawberries

Strawberries is the ninth solo studio album by Australian singer songwriter Robert Forster, released in May 2025 via Tapete Records.

Robert Forster was a founding member of Australian indie rock band The Go-Betweens from 1977 until the band initially disbanded in 1989, after which he has pursued a solo career. The Go-Betweens reformed between 2000 and 2006. Forster has released seven solo studio albums with the most recent being the critically acclaimed The Candle And The Flame in 2023.

Picture one of our greatest living singer songwriters in a kitchen. He is on holidays, he's just had a swim. His wife is out on the beach, and he finds himself faced with a bowl of irresistible strawberries. They're meant to be shared, of course, but their taste is “out of the ordinary”, so he just can't help himself. Minutes later all of the delicious fruit are gone, but there's the germ of a song as the phrase “Someone ate all the strawberries” has just popped into Robert Forster's mind, sounding “so weird, but normal”. Thankfully, he has taken his guitar with him.

Welcome to the starting point for Robert Forster’s ninth solo recording – a beautiful odyssey recorded over four weeks at Ingrid Studios, Stockholm over September and October 2024 with Peter Moren (of Peter Bjorn and John) at the production helm.

In Robert’s words: “I walked in and out with an album, none of it possible without the extraordinary support and musical magic I got from everyone involved. When you do something like this - the four week album recorded from scratch, having flown from one side of the world to the other, trust and talent is what you need and what I got. I was lucky. I received the gift. Now you know the story. I hope you hear it in the grooves.”

This album is on black vinyl housed in a single pocket sleeve with a printed inner sleeve, pressed in Australia via Tapete Records.