Meet Bartees Strange, the D.C. Musician Who's Revitalizing Indie Rock

billboard.com:

He caught the ear of the National & released his debut EP March 13 on their Brasslands imprtint. Much more is in store. Bartees Strange makes the music he wishes already existed.

Growing up alongside racism and isolation in rural Oklahoma, his family long found its voice in the jubilant music of black churches.

That expanded to the Christian hardcore his parents let him listen to and later, aggressive secular rock like At the Drive In and Glassjaw in the mid 2000s.

Around the same time he figured out how to produce music out of a makeshift home set-up. By the time he made it to Brooklyn after college, he was finding inspiration in boundary-pushing artists from all over: Robyn, Burial, TV on the Radio, the Internet.