{{more citations needed|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox album| | name = Forever Again | type = studio | artist = Eric's Trip | cover = Forever_Again.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|1994|09|26}}<ref name=subpop>{{cite web|title=Forever Again by Eric's Trip on Sub Pop Records|url=https://www.subpop.com/releases/erics_trip/forever_again|website=subpop.com|publisher=Sub Pop|accessdate=13 November 2014}}</ref> | recorded = May 11–29, 1994<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://exclaim.ca/music/article/erics_trip-_love_supreme|title=Eric's Trip A Love Supreme|website=exclaim.ca}}</ref> | venue = | studio = | genre = Indie rock, grunge, lofi | length = 41:32 | label = Sub Pop | producer = Eric's Trip, Bob Weston | prev_title = The Gordon Street Haunting EP | prev_year = 1993 | next_title = The Road South 7-inch | next_year = 1995 }} {{Album ratings | rev1 = AllMusic | rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/forever-again-mw0000626323|title=Forever Again - Eric's Trip &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits &#124; AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}</ref> |rev2 = ''The Encyclopedia of Popular Music'' |rev2score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="CL">{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |volume=3 |publisher=MUZE |pages=304–305}}</ref> }} '''''Forever Again''''' is the second studio album by the Canadian indie band Eric's Trip.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://vancouversun.com/news/erics-trip-back-on-track|title=Eric's Trip back on track|website=Vancouver Sun}}</ref><ref name="TP">{{cite web |title=Eric's Trip |url=https://trouserpress.com/reviews/erics-trip/ |website=Trouser Press |accessdate=25 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="auto"/> The album was recorded and mixed by the band's guitarist, Rick White. Sessions for the album took place at band members' homes and at White's home studio, Stereo Mountain. It was released by Seattle's Sub Pop records as SP 268, in LP, CD and cassette formats.

The album documents the romantic parting of White and Julie Doiron, as well as White's issues with drug use.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xLIiOE_jCpAC&q=Forever+Again+eric%27s+trip+barclay&pg=PT330|title=Have Not Been the Same: The CanRock Renaissance, 1985-1995|first1=Michael|last1=Barclay|first2=Ian A. D.|last2=Jack|first3=Jason|last3=Schneider|date=June 25, 2011|publisher=ECW Press|isbn=9781554909681|via=Google Books}}</ref>

The first few hundred copies of the vinyl LP ordered by mail-order included a bonus 7-inch EP with a comic book sleeve titled ''Notes From Stereo Mountain''. The EP is one of the rarest items in the Eric's Trip catalog.

A Music video was shot for the song "View Master", by Laura Borealis and Rick White, on August 13, 1994 in and around Moncton, New Brunswick, on 16mm film.<ref>https://maritimemusicscene.neocities.org/concerts/94/94-08-13</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFNbgL_5xWk</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121231033827/http://www.ericstripmovie.com/content</ref> Another music video was shot on Super8mm film by Peter Holt, for the song "Girlfriend", in Lewisville, New Brunswick. Tara Landry and Ron Bates appear within the music video.<ref>https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651738/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_lk</ref><ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20121231033827/http://www.ericstripmovie.com/content</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdnamYjuKNc - Music Video for "Girlfriend" (1994)</ref>

==Critical reception== ''Trouser Press'' called the album better than the debut, writing that "the songwriting tightens some of the eighteen selections into shapely forms, most noticeably when acoustic lightness is the chosen timbre."<ref name=TP/>

==Awards== The album was a Juno Award nominee for Best Alternative Album at the Juno Awards of 1995.

==Track listing== # "New Love" – 2:59 # "This Way Out" – 1:08 # "About You" – 1:22 # "Girlfriend" – 2:19 # "Always There" – 1:53 # "Stupidest Thing" – 1:52 # "December '93" – 2:08 # "Thoroughly" – 1:14 # "My Bed Is Red" – 4:47 # "View Master" – 2:46 # "Cloudy" – 1:40 # "My Chest Is Empty" – 3:07 # "Run Away" – 1:42 # "Waiting All Day" – 2:51 # "Let Go" – 1:45 # "Hate Song" – 1:33 # "Feeling Around" – 2:36 # "Forever Again" – 3:51

==Personnel== *Julie Doiron - bass, vocals *Mark Gaudet - drums, vocals on "Let Go" *Chris Thompson - guitars, vocals on "Run Away" *Rick White - guitar, vocals

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