Barbacoa “Carolynn” is a heavy hitting rock anthem about summer love with vivid imagery, you can really feel the warm breeze of the lake. It’s unsurprising that there is a bit of long distance and times come and gone in the lyrics given founding member of Barbacoa, Evanchuck, is a former United States service member. If you’re into walls of guitars that are reminiscent of pop-punk productions, including a real heavy breakdown for a bridge, but with vocals that are more 90s alt-pop sensible, think Matchbox Twenty. Wonderful tune to remind us all of summer in the colder months.
This band has a sweet story of friendship that I’ll quote below.
“Releasing their first single in 2010, Grant and Evanchuck had an unlikely start for a band. They formed right around the time Evanchuck was leaving for the U.S. Navy. Their first few years writing together was a long distance affair that had Grant sending Evanchuck music before he would head out to sea on a submarine. Evanchuck would write lyrics while on deployment and they would record whenever he got to come home on leave. After a decade of that kind of working relationship Evanchuck transitioned out of the Navy and came back to live and work near Cleveland, OH. When the pandemic hit it wasn’t very hard for Barbacoa to write together from a distance, as they had plenty of practice in that realm. The band enjoys building songs in their own way and has come to value the limited time they get to spend in the same room working together.”
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