Melody Maker ranked Forever as the 24th best album of 1993.[8]
In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Ned Raggett stated that Forever saw Cranes building on the mixture of "elegant restraint" and "brusque power" that characterised their 1991 debut album Wings of Joy.[6] He noted that Forever "went to extremes in both directions – the quieter moments were even more hushed and shadowed, the louder points all that much more whip-snap cruel."[6] Trivia, but it may be a very rare example of an album whose titles, deliberate or not, form a sort of a sentence.
Track listing
All tracks are written by Alison Shaw and Jim Shaw
No.
Title
Length
1.
"Everywhere"
3:41
2.
"Cloudless"
5:33
3.
"Jewel"
3:05
4.
"Far Away"
3:53
5.
"Adrift"
5:09
6.
"Clear"
3:43
7.
"Sun and Sky"
3:34
8.
"And Ever"
4:04
9.
"Golden"
3:43
10.
"Rainbows"
3:11
Total length:
39:36
European edition bonus track
No.
Title
Length
11.
"Shine Like Stars"
4:32
Total length:
44:08
UK limited CD edition bonus disc
No.
Title
Length
1.
"The Puppet"
3:48
2.
"Shine Like Stars"
4:32
Total length:
8:20
UK limited LP edition and European limited CD edition bonus disc
No.
Title
Length
1.
"At Sea"
3:19
2.
"Slide"
2:50
3.
"Wings of Joy"
2:04
4.
"Trumpet Song"
1:48
Total length:
10:01
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[9]
