Utah County Swillers Pulled the Rug Out from Americana Conventions with ‘Somebody or Other’ and their Wry Brand of Psychobilly Barncore

There’s something deliriously sideways about the opening bars of Utah County Swillers’ Somebody or Other; a tune where any notion of sobriety is soon abandoned in favour of whisky-soaked irreverence and raucous, bare-knuckled affection for the American West’s most overlooked souls. This is alt-country with the needle stuck in a groove, psychobilly barncore that rattles the dust off nostalgia’s boots and kicks down the doors of genre convention with an arched brow and a sardonic wink. Utah County Swillers have found the perfect petri dish for human fallibility: a Salt Lake City dive, neon flickering, dirt under every fingernail, the world outside indifferent. Their lyricism ambles between parable and punchline, tugging at existential anxieties with the sort of dark humour and home-grown grit that can only come from a band that has spent as much time outside the lines as in them. Somebody or Other is less a plea for immortality than a smirk in the face of anonymity, a playful outstretched hand to every last punk and loner craving a few immortal bars in someone else’s memory. This track is a satirical round of drinks for anyone who’s ever nursed a small-town grudge, a flash of self-awareness and outlaw […] The post Utah County Swillers Pulled the Rug Out from Americana Conventions with ‘Somebody or Other’ and their Wry Brand of Psychobilly Barncore appeared first on A&R Factory.

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There’s something deliriously sideways about the opening bars of Utah County Swillers’ Somebody or Other; a tune where any notion of sobriety is soon abandoned in favour of whisky-soaked irreverence and raucous, bare-knuckled affection for the American West’s most overlooked souls. This is alt-country with the needle stuck in a groove, psychobilly barncore that rattles the dust off nostalgia’s boots and kicks down the doors of genre convention with an arched brow and a sardonic wink. Utah County Swillers have found the perfect petri dish for human fallibility: a Salt Lake City dive, neon flickering, dirt under every fingernail, the world outside indifferent. Their lyricism ambles between parable and punchline, tugging at existential anxieties with the sort of dark humour and home-grown grit that can only come from a band that has spent as much time outside the lines as in them. Somebody or Other is less a plea for immortality than a smirk in the face of anonymity, a playful outstretched hand to every last punk and loner craving a few immortal bars in someone else’s memory. This track is a satirical round of drinks for anyone who’s ever nursed a small-town grudge, a flash of self-awareness and outlaw […]

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