Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy
Say Goodbye to Pretty Boy is a 2020 EP by Bartees Strange, covering songs by The [National (band)|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".
Critical reception
Emily Fox of Exclaim! rated this EP an eight out of 10, calling it "a beautiful, radical, and poignant political album". 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".Track listing
- "About Today" – 3:48
- "Lemonworld" – 3:16
- "Mr. November" – 4:13
- "The Geese of Beverly Road" – 3:24
- "All the Wine" – 2:46
- "A Reasonable Man " – 4:54
- "Looking for Astronauts" – 4:09
- "Lemonworld"
Personnel
Musicians- Bartees Strange
- Brian Demeglio
- Ceilidh Gao
- Dan Kleederman
- Brian Turnmire
- Dillon Treacy
- Carter Zumtobel
- Chris Connors – mastering and mixing (recorded music)|mixing]
- Brian Dimeglio – engineering
- Spencer Murphy – production and engineering
- Graham Richman – production and engineering
- Bartees Strange – engineering
- Carter Zumtobel – engineering