No band to play with, no audience to play for, and the weight of so much change in so little time, Katie Alice Greer began a project that would become her first solo album, Barbarism - writing, performing, producing, and mixing an entire record herself, building something that could expose who she is creatively when no one else is looking.
Waste permeates the language of the album - trash covering room floors, skunks scavenging through garbage, half-eaten food, split ends of hair inside a plastic bag. This conflict between the lightness of letting go and the hard-won significance of sitting with disorder lingers at the corners of many of the songs’ impressionistic sketches.