Okay, it’s time for you to add some vinyl this month, and it might as well be the new album from the pretty, and haunting Forest. The band will release a self-titled, limited picture album available on Feb. 9. You can even listen to all eight songs, which the band describe as “someone, or something, making sounds of loneliness on the dew-covered harps of a spider web.” A strange as it sounds, that’s pretty apt description. The music is lonely, isolated, with an upbeat undertow like a trickling stream. A must-listen to for this year. Below is one song not listed as being on the album, “Soon Be Over”. It’s has a drifting beauty to it, with celestial high falsetto, ambling synths, program drums, all rising to a harmonica finale: “Time to realize, what you’ve become / Ohhhhh.” Note: Album can be purchased digitally at this link. — David D. Robbins Jr.
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