Edition of 1500

October marks the one-year anniversary of Bartees Strange’s genre-defying and stunning debut LP, Live Forever. To celebrate the occasion, Bartees & Memory Music have teamed up for the Live Forever Deluxe Edition, a renewed look at one of 2020’s most adored albums. The release features an update of Bartees’ smash single – now ‘Free Kelly Rowland’ – now featuring a verse from the pioneering rap duo Armand Hammer. We’re also blessed with ‘Flagey God Redux,’ a new take on one of the record’s standout tracks as well as ‘Weights’ a completely new song initially debuted while Bartees has been on the road with Lucy Dacus this fall.Live Forever is a direct and stunning result of this conviction. Its impossible to divorce the reality of Stranges personal trajectory from the intricate and idiosyncratic 13-track saga on record: it spans gentle, Moses Sumney-meets-Yves Jarvis minimalism, Killers-ish indie rock vigor with post-punk cracks in its danceable veneer, the throbbing industrial alt-soul of Algiers, Justin Vernons acoustic tenderness, and the volatile, unforgiving production and delivery of Death Grips. Simply put, it is a combination that none but Strange could execute underand as a result ofprecise circumstances. Live Forever was featured as one of the best albums of 2020 by Rolling Stone, NPR, Spin, Pitchfork, Vice, the New Yorker and more.