Out now: Bartees Strange – Shy Bairns Get Nowt

Bartees Strange releases his brand new EP, Shy Bairns Get Nowt, after announcing the project last week. Out now on all streaming platforms, the EP features music recorded while making the recent album Horror, including new single ‘Ain’t Nobody Making Me High’ – a love song punctuated by impassioned ad-libs and ear-catching sing-along chorus. The EP also contains Horror producer Jack Antonoff’s version of ‘Baltimore’.

On the EP, Strange says: “I heard somebody say this when I was on tour in Europe and for whatever reason it rang in my ears for a while. I think it’s a northern UK saying that means quiet mouths don’t get fed. Sometimes you have to speak up to get what you want. I think about music and the gratefulness we all must have to be part of it. But also – what’s wrong with having demands, things you want out of it. These songs are from making Horror and from writing sessions I’ve done over the last couple years – sort of songs that didn’t fit the record but felt like a step in a different direction. I love them – and I wanted to put them out – so I said something.”

Bartees Strange’s latest album Horror was released earlier this year and includes explosive lead song ‘Lie 95’, uproarious confessional anthem ‘Wants Needs’, sonic love letter ‘Too Much’, introspective ballad ‘Sober’ and album closer ‘Backseat Banton’. Horror was co-produced by Strange, Yves and Lawrence Rothman (Yves Tumor, Lady Gaga) and Jack Antonoff. Throughout the record, Strange lays down one difficult truth after another, all over a sonic pastiche of music that soundtracked his childhood. Across the album’s 12 new tracks are genre-bending threads of the music his dad introduced him to – Parliament Funkadelic, Fleetwood Mac and Teddy Pendergrass – merged with Strange’s interest in hip-hop, country, indie rock, and house.

Stream / download Shy Bairns Get Nowt here.
Stream / download Horror here.