Jason Bartell (AKA Mythless) is an American musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and visual-artist who came to prominence as a guitarist and songwriter for

Fang Island Fang Island was an American indie rock band formed in Providence, Rhode Island, and based in Brooklyn, New York City, New York. The group consisted of the guitarists Jason Bartell and Chris Georges, the bass guitarist Brock Hengin and the drummer ...

. After Fang Island quietly disbanded in 2015, he began to produce new music as Mythless, signing with Joyful Noise Recordings and releasing his first solo-EP ("Patience Hell") in March 2018. “Once things slowed down [with

] and eventually stopped, it became more imperative for me to have an outlet, so I started to focus on Mythless. The experience pushed me to a new place where I would be responsible for everything myself. I enjoyed that freedom.” Fellow Fang Island alumni Marc St. Sauveur and Nicolas Andrew Sadler joined him on the drums and bass, and along the way, he incorporated an expansive aural palette, including “a maximal hard and fast element with harpsichord and lush keyboards to offset the wall of guitars." It "exists at the intersection between trance-metal and meditative hardcore." In addition to working on Mythless, Bartell continues to produce visual art. He's stated that material appearing on his debut EP was influenced by groups and individuals ranging from The Stranglers,

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, Kate Bush, the

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, the

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, to a performance by Boychild and Korakrit Arunanondchai, the latter of whom directed the video for "Statue", which appears as the third track on the Patience Hell EP.

Discography

;EPs ;Singles

References

{{reflist American indie rock musicians Joyful Noise Recordings artists Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Jason is going on tour for his new album, "That Way" in 2024 kicking off at Madison Square Garden on November 30 and end in Flordias Kim Center in May 2025