BARTEES STRANGE

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The idea for Bartees Strange’s new album Horror surfaced suddenly, at an inopportune moment, from somewhere deep within. Strange had just released his debut album Live Forever, and was beginning to write and work on its follow-up Farm to Table, when he
received a complete vision for a whole other album.

It was a terrifying vision, dripping with bloody truths and gruesome vulnerability. “A record will grab me like that… I will just be living life and then - BOOM - all this music will appear to me and I know I have to record it.”, explains Strange. But creating this album would involve opening a boarded-up door to a closet filled with everything from Strange’s life that he didn’t know how to address. At first, Strange pushed the calling aside and finished up Farm to Table, which was released to much critical acclaim, earning best-of nods from the likes of The New York Times, Rolling Stone and NPR Music.

However, it would not be long before Horror would rear its monstrous head again.