Matt Stell - Better Than That EP (2020) Hi-Res

Matt Stell will release the Better Than That EP this fall, and the new collection from the rising country singer includes the title track that's a barroom love song from an entirely different angle than most.

Catchy enough to have listeners raising their glasses and singing along, "Better Than That" takes a refreshingly empowering approach to courtship that finds the woman of the narrator's attention beleaguered by an unwelcome presence at the bar. In the song, Stell says she's too good for the handsy swain:

"You ain't a shot of Jager from a stranger at a dive bar / His hands all on your body on the dance floor / Try'n first kiss you up against the wall / I know you better than that / It ain't the move, ain't what you do / He don't know the first thing about you / I know you better than that / Yeah, I know you better than that."

In addition to "Better Than That," the forthcoming effort features a grip of the crooner's recent hits. Those include "If I Was a Bar," "Everywhere But On" and Stell's first-ever No. 1 single on country radio, "Prayed for You."