AmeroSwede trio Barbarisms are a delightful oddity: crafting off kilter rhythms somewhere between Guided by Voices and Built to Spill that are sewn with a darkly comic, literate singing redolent of Jeffrey Lewis or Daniel Johnston, a knowing of darkness because they’ve been there, underscored with a reflection of the absurdity of modern life.
The opening track ‘Easier all the Time’ lifted from their self titled debut, lurches languidly on a bed of splayed guitars and looping percussion laced with Nicholas Faraone‘s resigned vocal twang that’s bittersweet melody depicts a surrealist ebbing away and youthful dreams curtailed by the reality of growing up. ‘Easier All The Time’ a title dripping with irony, as this is a soundtrack to painful introspection. Delicious regret never sounded so good.
