Barbara
Ready Outdoors Alone
Out Now/DL
https://barbaratheband.bandcamp.com/releases
One thing of a Louder Than Battle favorite, Brighton’s Barbara have been gaining traction since I first began writing about them at the start of 2021. A help slot with The Divine Comedy taking part in to hundreds every night time, together with a date at Manchester Bridgewater Corridor, adopted by a brief headlining tour has put the hearts and minds of a rising variety of ardent supporters, together with Neil Hannon, Phil Jupitus (no much less), and quite a lot of in-the-know magazines.
Right here’s the rub; they sound like nobody else. They’ll’t be pigeonholed; and in an period of soulless, acoustic led drivel, male angst and distress dominating the charts, Barbara gives up a lemon-slice-in-sparkling-water zing, smiles and positivity, that you just gained’t have heard since Pilot sang ‘Ho Ho Ho It’s Magic’ in 1974. The ’70s has been heartily plundered, together with The Turtles (Rattling, I’ve used that analogy earlier than), ELO, The Kinks and Billy Joel. The impact has been condensed via the manufacturing of Tom Rees, who can be no stranger to the glam stomping seventies along with his band Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard.
So what in regards to the new single? Ready Outdoors Alone opens with an upbeat Pilot fashion riff, descending right into a minor chord arpeggio, earlier than hovering off right into a part-theatrical, divinely-punchy and completely uplifting slab of nostalgia. Suppose Mr Blue Sky – the tune rises, lopes and falls; caressing the listener in a heat blanket of familiarity, while sustaining a singular and compelling power. You possibly can’t assist however prefer it. It’s the Tydeman brothers personified – glad, smiling faces – born entertainers.
(Nerdy Notice: the duvet even has a Goodbye Yellow Brick Street/David Lurkham really feel to it!)
What Barbara say in regards to the file:
The lyrics replicate an intense, youthful frustration; ‘Ready Outdoors Alone’ each calls out the reactionary components which have come to dominate British politics and laments the sidelining of younger individuals from the fractious nationwide debate. Produced by Tom Rees (Buzzard
Buzzard Buzzard), ‘Ready Outdoors Alone’ attracts on the exact and spiky fashion of mid-Sixties Kinks for inspiration, while the punch and energy of the guitar strains is paying homage to Brian Could at his greatest.
The tune is out now on all main platforms.
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Phrases by Nigel Carr. Extra writing by Nigel on Louder Than Battle may be present in his Creator’s archive. You could find Nigel on Twitter and Fb
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