Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism [CD]

FOUR FOUR RECORDS

£12.94

Cat. no: CDFFR448
Format: CD
Barcode: 860006078492
Release Date: 02 Dec 2022
Genre: Electronic

Barbarism is Katie Alice Greer's frst full-length solo LP, following three EPs

From 2012 - 2019, Greer was the vocalist for Washington D.C. punk band Priests, and co- founded the record label Sister Polygon. Barbarism was written, performed, produced, and mixed entirely by Katie Alice Greer. It is profoundly singular, a graphic vision held completely by its individual perspective. It's also a boundless and lush record, teeming with bluffs, charms, and jolts. In Greer's words, making this record felt like I was making an entire world. This world is unnerving, loud. It evokes the bustle and momentum of a cartoon factory, orchestral gears threatening to grab your sleeve and yank you into a grinding embrace. Sometimes the accumulation of sound feels like a weapon in Greer's hands, other times it's a malevolent, drowning force she's fghting against. In both cases, it's fortunate that Greer has developed such command of her voice: to breeze atop this roar; to attack it in kind; to grow so crisply vulnerable that the song, shamed, twists itself into beauty. Barbarism is Katie Alice Greer's frst full-length solo LP, following three EPs. From 2012 €" 2019, Greer was the vocalist for Washington D.C. punk band Priests, and co- founded the record label Sister Polygon.Greer carefully sculpted each gesture on the record, contorting jangling guitars, sibilant hi-hats, even her own voice into thorny, unrecognizable corridors of sound. The creation of How Do I Know (Pring 5) provides a helpful example of this painstaking, gratifying process: The wobbly guitar chord strums are me playing an acoustic through some tremolo, explained Greer, overprocessing it through a lot of flters. The original beat' of the song was a clip of a voice memo I recorded, where I turned it up really loud and looped the bump' sound over and over.

LP Tracks: FITS/My Love Can't Be / Talking In My Sleep (Intro) / Fake Nostalgia / Dreamt I Talk To Horses / Flag Wave Pt. 1 / Flag Wave Pt. 2 / Captivated / No Man / A Semi Or A Freight Train / How Do I Know (PRING 5) / Barbarism

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