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9.0
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Rolling Stone
The indie singer-songwriter’s second album explodes with ideas about music, politics, and life itself
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8.4
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Paste Magazine
The polymath’s second album is yet another showcase for his versatile excellence
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8.3
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Spectrum Culture
The former FCC Deputy Press Secretary reinvents rock and reworks what it means to be alive in America
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8.0
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The Line Of Best Fit
Farm To Table is a celebration of Bartees Strange’s past, present, and future
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8.0
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Pitchfork
On his second album, Bartees Strange widens his stance and levels his gaze, staying grounded in his nimble genre-hopping and his dynamic songwriting
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
Akin to Strange’s heroes The National, Bartees has managed to strike that difficult chord of creating an album that’s sonically hard to define, as it skips from anthemic moments to pockets of introspection and poppy flirtations with ease
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8.0
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Mojo
Strange's earnestness is artful, and Farm To Table an uplifting triumph. Print edition only
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Exclaim
While Farm to Table isn't quite the classic that he surely has in him, we should consider ourselves fortunate that Bartees is in it for the long haul
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8.0
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Dork
Honest, authentic and brilliant in an era where so much seems to be smoke and flashy mirrors, Bartees Strange is one of a kind. If only he wasn’t
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8.0
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Under The Radar
Strange proves on Farm to Table that in refusing to sit still long enough to be pigeonholed, he’s looking to heft a glass of something sweeter than what’s historically been on offer
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8.0
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PopMatters
Continuing to blend hip-hop and indie rock, Bartees Strange charts a musically agile, emotionally-charged journey through his psyche on Farm to Table
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7.0
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Clash
Much like its title, Strange offers himself up to the world, presenting the second world in his ever-expanding universe. All we have to do is take it
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6.9
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6.9 |
Beats Per Minute
It’s a decent follow-up, but one that unfortunately comes off less Bartees Strange and more Bartees Safe
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6.0
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6.0 |
Slant Magazine
Bartees Strange attempts to carve out a sonic palette of his own on much of his second studio album
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6.0
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Crack
For the most part, you sense an artist eager to flex his stylistic prowess and revelling in the confidence to push his sounds in new, fresh directions. But this can yield mixed results
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