Barbarism is Katie Alice Greer’s first 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 fighting 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 first 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 filters. 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.”