### Barbara: Peger

#### 08/11/07 || The Duff

Having researched a little about Barbara, I discovered that they are a two piece band, consisting solely of a bassist and a drummer from Israel, by name known as Re-em H. and David Opp, respectively, two people who have impressively been playing together for twenty years – they’ve released other albums before this one, other albums that have been reviewed and, to some amazement, well received. So what of their latest?

The production on “Peger” is kept very gritty (like early Darkthrone), and although the drums appear a little spastically played on occasion, they aren’t executed so terribly overall – even quite professionally at times. The bass has a real cool sounding distortion, and the riffs range from old-school punk to noisecore, post-rock, drone and doom (all combined, these sub-genres form something referenced by connoisseurs as psycho-doomgrind… but of course). Then the vocals kick in, and all of a sudden I have have the toughest time finding something to like about “Peger”.

I am being a tad unfair; this isn’t so bad on the whole, and I can’t take away the fact that Barbara sound at the very least original – the music is actually pretty good, nicely flavored by a production I would normally find intolerable (although I do think eleven tracks of this style of music to be excessive); I just wish they’d put the cat that has caught its testicles in a door-jamb out of its misery and stop waving a microphone in front of its face.

5 real odd pairings out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 2007
- Label: Heart and Crossbones
- Website: Barbara MySpace
- Band
- David Opp: drums, vocals
- Re-em H.: bass, vocals

- Tracklist
- 01. Schnell
- 02. The philosopher under pressure
- 03. Akum
- 04. No compromise
- 05. Satanah
- 06. Evil doing
- 07. Pray to black
- 08. The feedbacker
- 09. Never mind the screaming
- 10. Peger
- 11. Shmaa