life is too short to listen to old music
Bartees Strange
[ he/him ]
city: Washingtoncountry: USA
genre: Rock
styles: Indie Rock, Alternative
ABOUT THIS ARTIST
Bartees Strange’s mother was an opera singer. His dad served in the military for decades. He traveled widely for his parents jobs — born in Ipswich, England 1989, his family also did stints in Germany, Greenland, and a number of states across america before he hit his 12th birthday when they settled in Mustang, Oklahoma.
Though Bartees’s mother shepherded him through formal musical training in voice, as a teenager he and his friends fixated on the blooming hardcore and emo scene of the Midwest and Deep South, drawing inspiration from band such as At the Drive In, Norma Jean, MeWithoutYou, Cap n Jazz, Bright Eyes, and American Football. Around this time Bartees started playing guitar.
In true DIY/punk fashion, this consumption turned into production. In middle school, Bartees began producing music for friends with a small project studio he built out of a Tascam 388, the family computer and a pirated copy of FL Studio. Through AOL instant messenger, Bartees connected with old friends in the UK, who brought him up to speed on a new world of sonic influence led by Bloc Party, Burial, Robyn and Skream. College, and a half-decade stint in Brooklyn connected him with the rising indie scene— particularly favorites like Bon Iver, TV on The Radio, Frank Ocean, James Blake, King Krule, Japanese Breakfast, Mt. Kimbie, Mitski, Thao Nguyen and The National, giving him a crash course in lyrical intrigue and textural brilliance.
Releases
LP
Horror
out on February 14, 2025
via 4AD
Single
Backseat Banton
out on February 12, 2025
via 4AD
Single
Wants Needs
out on January 14, 2025
via 4AD
Single
Wolf Like Me
out on November 22, 2024
via Red Hot Organization
Single
Xmas
out on November 21, 2024
via 4AD
Single
Sober
out on October 01, 2024
via 4AD
Single
Lie 95
out on July 10, 2024
via 4AD
Single
Big Glow
out on May 10, 2024
via A24 Music
Single
Going Going
out on April 19, 2024
via Brassland
Single
Magic Boy (preview)
out on April 05, 2024
via Brassland
LP
Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy (Deluxe Edition)
out on March 22, 2024
via Brassland
Single
You Always Hurt The Ones You Love (The New Look: Season 1 (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack))
out on March 20, 2024
via Shadow Of The City
Single
Daily News
out on March 07, 2023
via 4AD
Single
Tisched Off / Keekee'in (feat. Daniel Kleederman)
out on February 08, 2023
via Sub Pop Records
Single
Wretched (keiyaA Remix)
out on November 07, 2022
via 4AD
LP
Farm to Table
out on June 17, 2022
via 4AD
Single
Heavy Heart
out on March 01, 2022
via 4AD
LP
Live at Studio 4
out on October 15, 2021
via Memory Music
LP
Live Forever (Deluxe Edition)
out on October 01, 2021
via Memory Music
Single
Weights
out on September 23, 2021
via Memory Music
Single
Lady Luck
out on September 17, 2021
via Secretly Canadian
Single
Kyoto (Bartees Strange Remix)
out on August 19, 2021
via Dead Oceans
![Pool Hopping (Strange Pool Remix) [feat. Bartees Strange]](/Covers/image-thumb__17454__cover/611dc9689f2cf.jpg)
Single
Pool Hopping (Strange Pool Remix) [feat. Bartees Strange]
out on August 19, 2021
via Snack Shack Tracks / Hopeless Records
Single
Smartest Man (Bartees Strange Remix)
out on April 20, 2021
via Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd.
Single
Smartest Man (feat. Arlissa) - Bartees Strange Remix
out on April 20, 2021
via WEPRSNT
LP
Live Forever
out on October 02, 2020
via Memory Music
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Single
Kelly Rowland
out on September 16, 2020
via Memory Music
Single
Boomer
out on August 12, 2020
via Memory Music
Single
Mustang
out on July 23, 2020
via Memory Music
Videos
– Backseat Banton
February 12, 2025
Xmas
November 20, 2024
Sober (Official Video)
October 01, 2024
Lie 95 (Official Video)
July 10, 2024
Wretched
June 13, 2022
Heavy Heart
March 01, 2022
Kelly Rowland (Official Music Video)
September 16, 2020
Boomer (Official Music Video)
August 12, 2020
Mustang (Official Music Video)
July 23, 2020
Concerts
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