Barriers

For Frank Iero, making music has always been a coping mechanism. But its also much more than just a way of dealing with the hardships of life its a means of stepping back to take in the hurricane that is life, both in all its glory and devastation and acknowledging the things you could, and maybe should, have done differently. Regret flows through Barriers, Ieros third solo record, more than anything hes ever made before. Made with his new band, The Future Violents, and recorded and mixed by Steve Albini, its an album that directly and deliberately challenges the doubts that plague us, whether on a trivial, everyday basis or a more meaningful level. To that extent, its fourteen songs are much more than a deeply existential journey into his heart and mind. They also reinvent who he is as a musician and tackle head-on the fundamental question of what it means to actually be alive, to be human.