As Bartees Strange gears up for the digital release of his highly anticipated second album and 4AD debut, Farm to Table, out this Friday 17 June, he releases new single ‘Wretched’ today. The song is paired with a video directed by Michael Parks Randa that mirrors the rags-to-riches, started-at-the-bottom-now-we-here theme of the album as a whole. Bartees will make his TV debut performing the song on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this Thursday.
Bartees says of ‘Wretched’,“This song is about the people who’ve always stood by me, even when I was wretched. When I was trying to be something other than myself – they saw me even through that and held me down. Folks from past lives, and folks who’ll play a big part in my future – I’m grateful for them and the love they’ve poured into me. This song is for and about them.”
Bartees Strange – ‘Wretched’
Farm to Table also includes recent singles, the hopeful ‘Heavy Heart’, the unapologetically braggadocious banger ‘Cosigns’ and the mournful ‘Hold The Line’. Where his 2020 debut record Live Forever introduced the experiences and places that shaped Bartees (Flagey Brussels, Mustang Oklahoma), Farm to Table zeros in on the people – specifically his family – and those closest to him on his journey so far. With his career firmly on the ascent, Farm to Table examines Bartees’ constantly shapeshifting relationship with life post-Live Forever. It also speaks to a deeper lore that says, don’t forget where you came from, and this album is why. Always remembering where he came from, across 10 songs Bartees is celebrating the past, moving towards the future, and fully appreciating the present.
Farm to Table will be released this Friday, 17 June digitally, with physical formats (LP and CD) following on 7 October. To pre-order head to https://barteesstrange.ffm.to/farmtotable.
Bartees Strange – Farm to Table
Heavy Heart
Mullholland Dr
Wretched
Cosigns
Tours
Hold The Line
We Were Only Close For Like Two Weeks
Escape This Circus
Black Gold
Hennessy
One of the most riveting voices in rock and beyond.” – Rolling Stone
“This is inventive, emotionally intelligent indie-rock of the highest order.” – Billboard
“Only a fool would doubt him.” – Pitchfork
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ABOUT BARTEES STRANGE:
Born Bartees Leon Cox Jr. in Ipswich, England to a military father and opera-singer mother Bartees had a peripatetic early childhood before eventually settling in Mustang, Oklahoma. Later, Bartees cut his teeth playing in hardcore bands in Washington D.C. and Brooklyn whilst working in the Barack Obama administration and (eventually) the environmental movement. Since charting a path as a solo artist, Bartees Strange has released two records in quick succession: an EP reimagining songs by The National (Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy, 2020) and his debut album proper Live Forever (2020).
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