Katie Alice Greer fronted the roaring post-punk group Priests before they announced an indefinite hiatus a few years ago, and today she's revealing details for her debut solo album Barbarism. "FITS/My Love Can't Be," the album single she's shared today, is an intergalactic and distortive burst which Greer's vocals match with a plasticky sheen as she highlights the surveillance state, major news network infiltration, and the world's continuous unthinkable tragedies.
“I’d spent something like 70 days mostly alone since the pandemic started,” said Greer, who ventured from D.C. to LA following Priests' split. “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 Street 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."
The song comes with a video where Greer takes on the role of a news anchor broadcasting from "Barbarism News Network." Greer added on the video: “I’m not a journalist, but maybe to underscore the contrast between a reporter and a storyteller, I wanted to make a Network Howard Beale–inspired music video to visually communicate the cacophony of feeling."
Watch "FITS/My Love Can’t Be" below.
