Album Review: Live Forever by Bartees Strange

What a year it's been for Bartees Strange. He kicked it off with Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy, an EP of five captivatingly reimagined covers of the National that turned the heads of not only online music nerds but actual famous people like Hayley Williams, Ryan Reynolds and the National's own Matt Berninger. Six months later, the Washington, DC, artist follows it up with a debut album that's enjoyed a good amount of hype among indie critics and eager fans.

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Geographically speaking, The Woodlands are to Houston what Mustang is to Oklahoma City. The analogy starts to fall apart, however, when you compare Win and Will Butler’s boyhood experience, documented in Arcade Fire’s The Suburbs to that of Bartees Strange’s transplanted teenage home. White kids’ dreams of waging a suburban war on boredom don’t stack up against Strange’s suppressed fear of never being found dead out in the pasture.

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