Album Review: The Lonely Forest - Adding Up The Wasted Hours

Album Rating: B+

Everyone loves a good comeback story, and there are few bands out there today deserving of one as much as Washington's The Lonely Forest.  After landing some impressive radio spots with huge hits like "We Sing in Time" and "Turn Off This Song and Go Outside," major labels were fiending for any piece they could get of these Anacortes' musicians, and thus ensued the age-old story of hopeful success gone bad and replaced with stifling bureaucracy.  Somehow, The Lonely Forest managed to make it out alive, and now, armed with a new full-length album not on a major label, they're ready to pick up right where they left off, and start doing things their way.

The Lonely Forest

The new Death Cab For Cutie record won't be out until May, but The Lonely Forest will easily be able to hold down the fort until then. Produced by Death Cab's own Chris Walla, The Lonely Forest specializes in mid-tempo indie-rock songs that are beautifully written yet still catchy. Strings and keys are thrown in at times to just add to the atmosphere of the tracks. The band's latest album, Arrows, seems to be a perfect spring album, that will surely be even more perfect as fall comes around. The album can be streamed on Spinner here.