With his trademark blend of tense guitar, spiraling keyboards, and twittering drums, Shane Bartell’s songs are decidedly difficult to pin down, twisting and squirming into new, dynamic shapes, re-inventing themselves with each subsequent listen. Citing a bevy of eclectic influences (from the Smiths to Brazilian bossa nova), Shane Bartell is concerned primarily with provocative, descriptive storytelling.

"It is only a matter of time before he is recognized as one of America’s great songwriters."
-Paste Magazine

"Shane Bartell mixes the sophisticated, turtle-necked, too- suave-for-irony pop-smarts of Burt Bacharach with the high- octane unpretentiousness of a Burt Reynolds movie."
-Details Magazine