Hanif Abdurraqib reviews “Horror,” on which the genre-spanning Strange deconstructs old fears and finds ways to survive new ones.
In the press materials for “ Horror ,” the third studio album by Bartees Strange, the musician recounts how he would watch scary movies as a child to make himself strong, to emotionally prepare himself for the outside, as a kind of immersion therapy into the sharp and unpredictable collection of brutalities that together make up the world.
If I had to use that flawed binary to analyze Strange, at least on “Horror,” I’d say that he falls into the latter category. “Baltimore,” a sparse acoustic ode, is a patient exploration of belonging, or lack thereof, starting from the opening line: “When I think about places I could live / I wonder if one’s good enough to raise a few Black kids.
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