This is the first time I've linked to iTunes, but I have no choice. I got this EP from the band directly, for free, when I saw them open for Mando Diao. The EP itself said they were supposed to release an album at the end of 2008, but it didn't happen. Now all there is this lone out-of-print now online-only EP.

When seen live, the music is kind of strained, and we couldn't hardly understand the signer for shit, but I attribute most of this due to the fact that the Troubadour has lousy sound and I don't know why bands play there. The crowd also always sucks. I don't like the Troubadour. Lots of bad experiences there.

We Barbarians are great, for some reason they remind me of this distant time when Radiohead used to actually played instruments and wrote traditional songs that were somewhat fun to listen to. We Barbarians doesn't necessarily sound anything like Radiohead, but the general vibe is kind of the same. You've got a bunch of white, sweaty, kinda twiggy awkward-looking intelligent guys playing their instruments and creating a tsunami of sound of which there is no escape from!

This is another one of those songs that has a cool shift part-way through it that feels somewhat like a dam breaking in your head somewhere. In my head somewhere. In our collective head.

I wish I would meet someone, some cool dude (ala "I Love You, Man") who would be like, "Dude, I should teach you how to play guitar, and then we can be a band that sounds like this, and you can sing and stuff or whatever, it would be rad!" and then he'd keep his enthusiasm even when I became discouraged and eventually we would be famous and awesome. Or at least content, you know, making music people write music blogs about.

I figure since We Barbarians gave me their EP for free, I might as well pass on this track from it to you. It doesn't look like there is anywhere else you can grab this on the world wide internets, so here you go. Happy Easter!

Download: http://staires.org/inthedoldrums.mp3

Someone next door is playing their radio really loudly and it's playing Evanescence and holy shit if there is anything on earth that should be wiped off the face of the Earth, it's this horrible bullshit. Amy Lee should choke to death on a leprous AIDS cock. Good lord.