Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy is a 2020 EP by Bartees Strange, covering songs by The National. It was reissued as a deluxe edition 2024. The digital version was seven tracks rather than five tracks long and included an extended version of "Looking for Astronauts." The new vinyl edition included a bonus track: "Lemonworld" (Live at Studio 4).
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| Released | March 13, 2020 | |||
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| Genre | Indie rock | |||
| Length | 36:31 | |||
| Language | English | |||
| Label | Brassland | |||
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Critical reception edit
Emily Fox of Exclaim! rated this EP an eight out of 10, calling it "a beautiful, radical, and poignant political album".[1] The album was released on the digital platform Bandcamp, which promoted the release with a review that characterizes this recording as taking "all of the original ingredients and uses a completely different recipe to create a new, distinct flavor".[2]
Track listing edit
- "About Today" (Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner) – 3:48
- "Lemonworld" (Matt Berninger and Bryce Dessner) – 3:16
- "Mr. November" (Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner) – 4:13
- "The Geese of Beverly Road" (Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, and Scott Devendorf) – 3:24
- "All the Wine" (Matt Berninger, Aaron Dessner, Bryce Dessner, Bryan Devendorf, and Scott Devendorf) – 2:46
- "A Reasonable Man (I Don't Mind)" (Padma Newsome) – 4:54
- "Looking for Astronauts" (Matt Berninger, Bryce Dessner, and Scott Devendorf) – 4:09
- "Lemonworld" (Live at Studio 4 - vinyl only) (Matt Berninger and Bryce Dessner)
Personnel edit
Musicians
- Bartees Strange
- Brian Demeglio
- Ceilidh Gao
- Dan Kleederman
- Brian Turnmire
- Dillon Treacy
- Carter Zumtobel
Technical personnel
- Chris Connors – mastering and mixing
- Brian Dimeglio – engineering
- Spencer Murphy – production and engineering
- Graham Richman – production and engineering
- Bartees Strange – engineering
- Carter Zumtobel – engineering
References edit
- ^ Fox, Emily (March 11, 2020). "Bartees Strange Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy". Exclaim!. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
- ^ Craig, Sean (March 18, 2020). "On "Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy," Bartees Strange Flips the Narrative". Bandcamp. Retrieved November 22, 2022.
External links edit
- Page from Brassland
- Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy at Discogs (list of releases)
- Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy at MusicBrainz (list of releases)
