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Barrie announces 5K EP & shares new single ‘Races’

Barrie has shared details of a new EP entitled 5K, due for release on March 31 via Winspear. Alongside the news she has released new single ‘Races’.

Brooklyn-based musician and producer Barrie Lindsay, known simply as Barrie, has a passion for creating left-of-center pop music that reflects what The New York Times describes as “a kaleidoscopically vivid inner world.” She spends her days writing songs and tinkering in Logic, stockpiling her creations in a vast archive of folders and hard drives. When it came time to select the songs for her second LP, Barbara, she narrowed it down to sixteen tracks. As the record came together, it became clear that there would be two separate projects.

The remaining five tracks from the Barbara sessions – more light-hearted and off-the-cuff – were compiled into a new project. An avid runner, Barrie named the EP 5K after the common foot race. Explains Barrie: “The music felt like a good arc for running. I want this music to be good company; steady and light enough. It’s literal and it’s metaphorical; this EP is meant to be your running partner for whatever form of 5K you’re doing.”

The first single from the collection is ‘Races’, where baroque daydream pop is set to a 12/8 time signature, with crashing drums and stately keyboards that swoon with giddy romance.

Speaking on the track, Barrie comments: “I finished the music for ‘Races’ before the lyrics, and I was trying to figure out what to say. I got in a rabbit-hole about how when you get songs stuck in your head, they’re like these weird little mantras that you didn’t choose to take on, and how crazy it is that musicians have the opportunity to have a direct line into people’s heads like that. I was thinking about what phrases I’d want to implant. And what would be a good use of that kind of privilege. Obviously it doesn’t work exactly that way, but there was an element of experimenting with that in this song.”

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