Songs to Play is the sixth solo album by Australian singer-songwriter Robert Forster, released by Universal Music Australia in 2015.

Scott Bromiley and Luke McDonald of the band The John Steel Singers played many instruments on the album and were also credited as co-producers.

[4] The Guardian said listeners should "imagine Reed narrating a Talking Heads album (it could be 77 or True Stories) and you’re getting close to the feeling of Songs To Play.

"[6] An AllMusic review stated "these songs are direct and kinetic, full of hooks, rich in metaphors and irony, and a sleight-of-hand confessionalism.

The review noted the debt owed to The Velvet Underground, and also said, " these spirited, well-crafted songs offer rock & roll in a manner he's never even hinted at before.

"[5] PopMatters said it "needs to be acknowledged as an album from a unique songwriter who just so happened to catch his sound so damn well that it makes a strong case for Forster’s artistic life beyond the Go-Betweens.

Robert sounds so agog with the possibilities that life has to offer that it’s as if he’s just discovered the sheer genius of the greatest art form of the modern age — that’s rock & roll — for the first time.