{"id":6166,"date":"2016-02-23T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-loner-chic-year-of-the-goth\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:16:07","slug":"album-review-loner-chic-year-of-the-goth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-loner-chic-year-of-the-goth\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Loner Chic &#8211;\u00a0Year of the Goth"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/78da218054dd917bb4e1a0e3b9faf753\/tumblr_o2x3gjLRGj1r8no6so3_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"image\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>You really cannot beat a perfectly judged lyric. A flash of wit, a well-observed judgement or a jab of world-weary cynicism, just something that makes you sit up, smile, and take note that you\u2019re not listening to the same run of the mill indie\/pop punk\/emo\/whatever band.<\/p>\n<p><b>Loner Chic<\/b> are so adept at their wordplay that <i>\u2018Year of the Goth\u2019<\/i> will leave you in permanent rapture and grinning from ear-to-ear. Take <i>\u2018Imaginary #2\u2019<\/i>; the entire second verse is one long storm-front metaphor that is so brilliantly precise it flows like poetry. <\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p>It helps too that the stories conjured by <b>Loner Chic<\/b> are rooted in the same humdrum situations many of us find ourselves in on a daily basis. Combined with the lyrical excellence, it means <i> \u2018Year of the Goth\u2019<\/i> is hugely relatable for anyone who found themselves struggling to fit in or encountering relationship problems or on the wrong end of some unrequited love. It could\u2019ve been sappy and corny, instead it\u2019s wonderfully poignant without being too saccharine. It\u2019s an album filled with 10 tales of awkward growing pains penned by folk who write songs like Tarantino writes dialogue. And it really is wonderful. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lonerchic.bandcamp.com\/album\/year-of-the-goth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Year Of The Goth by Loner Chic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musically <i> \u2018Year of the Goth\u2019<\/i> is fun and loose, recalling the fuzzy, formed-in-a-garage-over-a-keg-of-beer feel of The Replacements or, more recently, Sorority Noise or Joyce Manor. That said, there\u2019s still plenty of head-bobbing highlights. <i>\u2018All Natural\u2019<\/i>, which led their 2014 demo, sounds amazing thanks to a top-notch production job, sitting somewhere between the unhinged bluster of Titus Andronicus and the cocksure swagger of the Libertines. There\u2019s even a lovely little horn section by The World Is A Beautiful Place\u2019s Chris Teti. Elsewhere <i>\u2018Day Drunk at the Gates of Hell\u2019<\/i> is five and a half minutes of bliss, taking a simple &lsquo;90s college rock riff and pairing it with this rambling, affecting, monologue that is at turns painfully self-aware, at others a name-dropping delight.<\/p>\n<p>Back in January, we included <b>Loner Chic<\/b> as ones to watch in our 50-band 2016 preview. Not only have they exceeded our lofty expectations, they\u2019ve also delivered one of the finest debuts you\u2019re gonna hear all year. You just need to get past THAT artwork!<\/p>\n<p>5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2019Year of the Goth&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Loner Chic<\/strong> is out now on <b>Broken World Media<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loner Chic<\/strong> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lonerchic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/loner_chic%E2%80%9D\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/lonerchic.bandcamp.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banndcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Rob Mair (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BobNightMair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BobNightMair<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You really cannot beat a perfectly judged lyric. A flash of wit, a well-observed judgement or a jab of world-weary cynicism, just something that makes you sit up, smile, and take note that you\u2019re not listening to the same run of the mill indie\/pop punk\/emo\/whatever band. 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