by Christian Schaeffer
The debut, self-titled EP by the Defeated County was a necessary introductory step in singer/songwriter Langen Neubacher’s development; that 2013 release was her first recording, and it documented the coalescing of the Defeated County, a sympathetic combo made up of scene vets and disparate talents. Those talents and personalities have continued to fuse together, and Bar Tabs & Baby Names is the product of a band that has learned to summon the ghosts of St. Louis’ alt-country past without approaching slavish re-creation.…
by Christian Schaeffer
The debut, self-titled EP by the Defeated County was a necessary introductory step in singer/songwriter Langen Neubacher’s development; that 2013 release was her first recording, and it documented the coalescing of the Defeated County, a sympathetic combo made up of scene vets and disparate talents. Those talents and personalities have continued to fuse together, and Bar Tabs & Baby Names is the product of a band that has learned to summon the ghosts of St. Louis’ alt-country past without approaching slavish re-creation.…