Katie Alice Greer, formerly the lead singer of Priests, has announced Barbarism, her debut full-length album. The record is led by the new song “FITS/My Love Can’t Be,” which arrives with a music video that Greer directed, produced, and edited herself. Watch the video below.
Barbarism is due out June 24 via FourFour. The LP follows Greer’s three solo EPs: Freaky 57, 3 Colors, and No One Else on Earth. Of the new single, Greer said in a statement:
I’d spent something like 70 days mostly alone since the pandemic started. Then one weekend I biked out to Fairfax Avenue and found myself amongst thousands of people. It was jarring…. To go from mostly the stillness of a barely-lived-in bedroom to projectile shopping carts, strangers chanting, phalanxes of beige gun toters, and tanks parallel parked outside luxury underwear and grocery shops on Melrose. Stuff was on fire. I think I listened to Exile on Main St. headed home, because it’s similarly contradictory and complicated mixture of emotions felt resonant. I wanted to try and capture all that I was feeling without so much as re-telling events that inspired the emotions themselves.
