Soberby Bartees Strange

'Horror' is coming early 2025. Bartees Strange was raised on fear. His family used scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, Strange started using scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, black person in rural America, that terror can be visceral. Horror is an album about facing those fears and growing to become someone to be feared. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music he loved as a kid. His dad hipped him to Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young. Those influences merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house, culminating in a record that feels completely original. barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

'Horror' is coming early 2025. Bartees Strange was raised on fear. His family used scary stories to teach life lessons, and at an early age, Strange started using scary movies to practice being strong. The world can be a terrifying place, and for a young, queer, black person in rural America, that terror can be visceral. Horror is an album about facing those fears and growing to become someone to be feared. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music he loved as a kid. His dad hipped him to Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac, Teddy Pendergrass, and Neil Young. Those influences merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house, culminating in a record that feels completely original. barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

Bartees Strange’s "Horror" is coming early next year, and the LP is inspired by Strange’s experience growing up queer and Black in Oklahoma — being afraid and being feared. Strange recorded it with assistance from Yves and Lawrence Rothman and from Jack Antonoff. -- Here’s what Strange says about the song "Sober": This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over, and drinking because of it. I think this is something a lot of people can probably relate to. Being in love but not being the best at showing it or feeling successful within it. And being afraid that this is something you’ll always deal with because you never really saw a better example of how love works. barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

Bartees Strange’s "Horror" is coming early next year, and the LP is inspired by Strange’s experience growing up queer and Black in Oklahoma — being afraid and being feared. Strange recorded it with assistance from Yves and Lawrence Rothman and from Jack Antonoff. -- Here’s what Strange says about the song "Sober": This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over, and drinking because of it. I think this is something a lot of people can probably relate to. Being in love but not being the best at showing it or feeling successful within it. And being afraid that this is something you’ll always deal with because you never really saw a better example of how love works. barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

Bartees Strange’s "Horror" is coming early next year, and the LP is inspired by Strange’s experience growing up queer and Black in Oklahoma — being afraid and being feared. Strange recorded it with assistance from Yves and Lawrence Rothman and from Jack Antonoff. -- Here’s what Strange says about the song "Sober": This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over, and drinking because of it. I think this is something a lot of people can probably relate to. Being in love but not being the best at showing it or feeling successful within it. And being afraid that this is something you’ll always deal with because you never really saw a better example of how love works. barteesstrange.bandcamp.com

Bartees Strange’s "Horror" is coming early next year, and the LP is inspired by Strange’s experience growing up queer and Black in Oklahoma — being afraid and being feared. Strange recorded it with assistance from Yves and Lawrence Rothman and from Jack Antonoff. -- Here’s what Strange says about the song "Sober": This song is about falling short in a relationship, over and over, and drinking because of it. I think this is something a lot of people can probably relate to. Being in love but not being the best at showing it or feeling successful within it. And being afraid that this is something you’ll always deal with because you never really saw a better example of how love works.