Australian singer-songwriter Ben Lee picked a heck of a year to start pitching an album with a first track titled "What's So Bad (About Feeling Good?)."

While the campfire poptimism of Lee's latest record, "The Rebirth of Venus," lands with all the socioeconomic timing of “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” his round-table show at Largo at the Coronet on Tuesday night revealed an eager cadre of fans -- an audience for whom modest indie tunes about Lee's affection for music, the pleasures of singing and the virtues of hokey lyrics are enough to keep their spirits up while standing in line for the dole.