It could be accurately said that David Lowery is one of the true founding fathers of a kind of music that now goes by the name Alt/Country. After his days of fronting Camper Van Beethoven, Lowery re-invented himself in Cracker and has since turned out a hit-and-miss body of angst-ridden, country-tinged power pop. After a lengthy hiatus Cracker is back with Forever an album that has plenty of fine moments but overall suffers from the same lack of focus that has plagued his post-Camper career. I love about half of it and the rest I can take or leave. Forever seems to go on for just about that long and it would have been a better record if 3 or 4 tunes were left for hardcore Cracker-heads to find on the internet.