Forrest City Lovers
Haunting Moon Sinking
****/5

I’m not big on Boxing Day sales but this year I stumbled across a great mp3 sales on one of my favorite music websites. Zunior which features a great selection of indie music from Canada and beyond was selling many of their cd’s at cut throat prices. I took advantage of the opportunity to get a few discs from bands I’ve never heard of before and one of those discs was Forest City Lovers.

Off the bat Forest City Lovers remind me of a one gender Stars with airy female vocals that draw foggy stories of love. As you listen more the folk side of things comes through and you can close your eyes and feel yourself floating away on a roadtrip. I’m guessing this cd might have been written while touring across Canada or at least spending lots of time at some cabin on a lake somewhere.

I’d highly recommend checking out this cd. If you got the bands Myspace you can hear a few of the best tracks of the cd including my personal favorite “Country Roads” (not a cover of John Denver but almost as good).