Sounds | Parker Barrow - The Healer
- Jan Guisset
- 8 nov 2025
- 2 minuten om te lezen
Deze video laat het het type band zien en horen waar ik absoluut een zwak voor heb. 'On the road', zwetend, groovend, genietend en iemand die beter op de hond had moeten letten. Aan werkethiek ontbreekt het Parker Barrow zeker niet. Hun sound stampt en rolt in het rond. En alhoewel ik hen een meer rechtvaardige wereld en dus een supersterrenstatus meer dan toewens, blijf ik ook wel van de kleinschaligheid van dit genre houden. Optredens in kleine tenten of clubs waarbij het publiek zonder al te veel poespas bijna neus aan neus staat met de muzikanten.
Had ik ook al vermeld dat deze The Healer uit Parker Barrow's gloednieuwe EP Hold the Mash komt? Eerder stelden we u daaruit al de eerste single Make It voor en u moet zeker ook Novocaine eens checken.
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“The recording process for the EP was a completely new experience, unlike anything we’ve done before,” says Parker Barrow’s lead singer Megan Kane. “With guitarist Alex Bender joining the creative songwriting journey with us, everything felt refreshed and reimagined. Balancing our touring schedule while carving out time to record came with its own challenges. Watching the songs grow from voice memos, to fleshing out ideas in the basement of our house to finished recordings has been incredibly rewarding.”
Of new single “The Healer”, drummer Dylan Turner comments “It’s an exciting track because it shows a brand-new side of Parker Barrow,” says Dylan Turner. “Our music has always been groove based, and guitar driven, but this track called for something different. It features Eric Safka’s psychedelic-tinged organ solo which sets it apart from the rest of the tracks we’ve released so far.”
“Olivia Lane is a personal favourite of mine off of the EP,” says guitarist Alex Bender. “The track gradually builds using various textures and dynamics until it climaxes when the full band features on the final chorus. The first single we released from the Mash EP, ‘Make It’, is a hard-hitting rock song that crashes in, and doesn’t let up until the final drum fill. Creating diverse styles of music on the EP shows depth and musicality that is very characteristic of who we are as a band.”
Parker Barrow are led by husband-and-wife duo Megan Kane (lead vocals) and Dylan Turner (drums). The name of the band is a homage to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow - the infamous American bank robbers during the early 1930’s Great Depression.
