Bernard and Rachel Chadwick are the husband-and-wife duo that create pop/rock music imbued with love and artisanship. Their’s is an enviable creative relationship built around making more of themselves and the world through collaboration.

Video Game Of Love, a new forthcoming album by the band Loud Forest is slated to be released early 2024. The album is a carefree exploration of love in its various forms and perspectives inspired by 80's synth pop. The sound is characteristic of the bands angular and melodic indie style, but with a new textural feel that is reminiscent of early 80's albums by Human League, Depeche Mode, and Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark.  Drum machines and arpeggiated synths create a trance like foundation that allow songs to swirl around soaring vocal melodies.

My Love Is Alive is the first single release for the album. It takes a playful approach on the subject of loneliness and hurt within a relationship. Love is something that needs to be cared for and nurtured like any living thing. The song is an anthem for those experiencing desire and the madness that creeps in when things get tangled or neglected.

Love On A Freeway is the second single slated to be released later in 2023. It's a fictitious story about finding love while racing through the dark unforgiving freeway landscape of Los Angeles. Taking visual cues from films like Bladerunner and Drive, the song creates a rhythmic trance that holds you in the tension of the repetition and the swell of a longing melody.

Borrowed Time is the third single, slated to be released early 2024. Borrowed time could easily be considered the title track for the album. The song is about denial. Someone is racing forward in a relationship that is bound to end in pain, but for now, if all the signals are ignored, they can press ahead a few more levels. The driving distorted bass guitar and mechanical drum machine strikes a nice balance of that moment in 80's music when rock bands were experimenting with new technologies. The warbled chorus and phaser effects on the electric guitars and vocals is reminiscent of Flock Of Seagulls and Duran Duran. Those sounds ground it in a tradition of bands playing with the balance of plastic pop culture and the experimental. The visual metaphor, a vintage video game console, adds a playful element to a serious subject matter but the end result is the same, you can only play so long, the inevitable end is "game over".