Barrie "Barbara" Opaque Orange LP (2022)

Details: Barrie "Barbara" on opaque orange vinyl, released by Winspear, 2022. New stock. Description: "Barrie Lindsay is the type of artist who is driven by precise visions of how music should sound. However, the 32-year-old, soft-spoken, obsessive producer can be cerebral to a fault, prone to intellectualizing her emotions and self-consciously camouflaging herself in her songs. On Barbara, Lindsay’s first-ever self-produced album, and second under the moniker Barrie, she battled these self-censoring, self-protective instincts. The result is a beautifully peculiar and quietly ambitious collection of synth-pop, art-pop, indie rock, and folk songs that reflect a new willingness to let listeners into her world. Lindsay grew up tinkering with instruments in her bedroom in Ipswich, Massachusetts. “I’ve always craved big, layered sounds,” Lindsay says. After graduating from Wesleyan in 2012 with a degree in music, she formed her first band with her brother Jack Lindsay, a 5-piece group calle