Music

Download of the Week: Forest City Lovers "Light You Up"

by Jessica Lewis

Photo by: Ryan Marr

Toronto darlings Forest City Lovers will be releasing their third full-length album, Carriage, next week. It’s a soothing collection of pretty songs that will likely find homes on mix CDs, iPods in parks and stereos on Sunday afternoons while dishes are being washed. They’ve long been somewhat of the city’s precious secret, but it seems that this album will propel them, like a paper airplane, much farther.

We’re excited to bring you one of the album’s songs, “Light You Up,” today as a free download. As soon as it starts, it feels like the band is singing to you while they’re walking around an amusement park or carnival of sorts. You can practically see the bright, flashing colours fly by as singer Kat Burns sings about a relationship with the turn of spring in Toronto. It’s one of the shorter songs on the album, and goes by quicker once you hit Mika Posen’s pulsing violin lines, but it’s easy to push replay. It’s also quite fun to sing along to.

Of course, the lyricism suggests a bit of a tougher time than just skipping around a carnival, but it does offer a sense of confidence and hope as Burns urges someone to make things right, to grow like the spring. And we may be a little off, as yesterday was the first real day of this year’s summer, but if confidence is urged in the season previous, then by now, what comes of it is as good as this song.

Download “Light You Up.”