Bartees Strange previews new album with third single "Hold The Line"
Bartees Strange has released new track "Hold The Line" as the third taster of his Farm to Table album that's out digitally next month.
"Hold The Line" follows last month's "Cosigns" and March's "Heavy Heart", and was written in May 2020 about Gianna Floyd, the daughter of George Floyd.
"I remember watching George Floyd’s daughter talk about the death of her father and thinking, wow - what a sad introduction to Black American life for this young person," Bartees Strange said. "It was painful to watch her grow up in that moment, like all Black kids eventually do."
Floyd added, ""Hold The Line" was written over the course of three days during that first pandemic summer. Through this song I was trying to make sense of what was happening in the US, my neighborhood and my community at that moment. During the marches people were trying to stop the bleeding, locked arm in arm, doing everything they could to hold the line."
Farm to Table will be Bartees Strange's first album since signing to 4AD, and will follow his 2020 debut album Live Forever.
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