WE CAN LIVE HERE FOREVER

Limited vinyl LP pressing. ItAEs easy to get lost in Wisconsin. Metropolitan centers might anchor to the Midwest, but patches of sprawling wilderness and bitter weather make for an American outlier. Barely Civil was built from this backdropufour different dots on the state map. Despite this, their debut full-length We Can Live Here Forever plots a journey home, whatever and wherever that means. Stopovers across genre and structure keep the pace measured and lean, while Matt RieflerAEs layered production explodes any breathing room into powerful statements. Vocalist/guitarist and primary lyricist Connor Erickson leaves plenty of signage trailing to his home base. oEau Claire' Oh, Claire.o marries Wisconsin landmarks with a portrait of cautious twenty-something love. oStarko and oKento - a pair of slumbering guitar tracks in the back halfgain their names from his and bassist Ben ForstAEs address lines. ThereAEs also an outward mobility as the tracks grow in magnitude, cataloging sleepless nights in Super 8 motels, in othersAE houses, in the scattered silence carried through cigarette smoke and whispered confessions. The nomadic scene changes match the recordAEs morphing between indie-rockAEs straight-laced and stratospheric ambitions in minutes. For the first time Barely Civil has been pressed to vinyl.'