The Lonely Forest is sick! YouTube comments such as this might at first seem misleading, but “sick,” as a compliment, is apparently back in style (see 1997). It’s fitting for the Recycle Generation (here to forever be anointed Gen-R), and The Lonely Forest flows perfectly into their unusual tapestry woven of supermodel vampires, over-privileged underemployed, and angst-driven rage that fuels apathy, hopelessness and the fierce determination to save what’s left of the shithole we’re leaving them. There’s nothing unique about The Lonely Forest, of course, but at least they’re trying to not play the game while playing the game—look at their name, after all. They’re part of the army of pseudo-indie rockers with rather pedestrian compositions who’re desperately trying not to fall into the mainstream corporate sinkhole sucking in artists left and right, and for that we say: you’re wicked bad, dudes.
Sun., April 28, 8 p.m., 2013
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