Princess Barbara began after I graduated college and mostly exists on the computer; I never had plans to get a band together or play live, but I was moving away from home so Think Twice, Dublin was going on hiatus and I still wanted to write music. While much of the writing was shared with Pat Coyle, especially early on, it has slowly and finally become a solo effort.

When starting the project I wanted to experiment with more electronic and synth sounds without too much limitation....I definitely remember being heavily inspired by Age of Adz this time of my life; a lot of the early Princess Barbara tracks have a lot of (digital) horns on them.

More recently the music has gotten more instrumentally focused and predictably melancholic. While the instrumentation used to be heavily influenced by complex digital virtual instruments, Princess Barbara now sticks to physical hardware synthesizers and bass/guitar, while the drums are patch-programmed on a eurorack drum machine and adjusted later for fills and variation.

While releases are slow, the project is active, feel free to drop a follow on your preferred streaming platform or download for free on bandcamp.