Two final Grant McLennan obits, one by the Go-Betweens' most ardent American fan Robert Christgau, and one by Popmatters writer and Stylus colleague Justin Cober-Lake, the latter of which has a particularly salient insight into McLennan's genius ("McLennan doesn't need to describe the street you've been on, because you're invariably on the street he's describing"). Meanwhile Christgau reports that on the night of his death McLennan was going to celebrate a housewarming party, at which he planned to propose to his girlfriend Emma.

Listening to "Put You Down" off his 1995 solo album Horsebreaker Star, I kept thinking, "Shit, shit, shit."