Champ
Kim Barlow
With the help and support of Caribou Records, CHAMP is being released with Vancouver-based Jericho Beach Music.
Kim Barlow's new recording, Champ, is a collection of earthy, wry
allegories about love, death and horses. There is a playful defiance
in these songs; a reckoning of lost battles and a Yukon-honed
resilience punctuated by moments of unhindered joy.
Champ is spare and humble, balanced by warm harmonies and the
low, dark folk-pop brew of Barlow on banjo and guitar, along with
collaborator and co-producer Jordy Walker. A spontaneous
and intimate energy is revealed in these recordings from the live,
woody room at Old Crow Recording studio, in spite of, or maybe
because of, the record-breaking cold snap during which the music
was made.
