All It Takes for Evil to Prosper by Debris Bardot

For fans of Slint, The Velvet Underground, constant, uncontrollable dissociation, and a lifetime of fumbled small talk, All It Takes for Evil to Prosper by Debris Bardot welcomes us into a life of alienation with their unique style of slowcore americana. Melancholic, twinkly guitar riffs set the desolate stage, placing all of our mundane experiences behind a fuzzy filter of absurdity. From here, spoken vocals relay endlessly frustrating stories of trying and failing to relate to others, their values, and their interests, a good faith effort which seemingly will always go unrecognized at best and outright punished at worst. Though these songs resemble the forms of traditional, accessible American folk music, a pivot towards the enigmatic aesthetic tastes of the author forms an offputting barrier, mirroring these broken social communications. For those of us who clear that fence and find comfort in these sounds, a community forms where one would have previously seemed unthinkable, proving art’s place as an engine for connectivity and the ultimate tool to vanquish alienation.