Well ok then, nary a ripple on the ilx surface. This song is kicking me in the pants today.
― Hinklepicker, Friday, 30 January 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
I like Courtney Barnett too but the production on the new song is not my thing
― so not gonna häpna (seandalai), Friday, 30 January 2015 23:32 (nine years ago) link
i like her too.
wish the production was more aggressive and less indie though
― nostormo, Monday, 2 February 2015 12:04 (nine years ago) link
I dig the new tune.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nr1nNC3ds#t=46
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 18:10 (nine years ago) link
This is a jam.
― how's life, Thursday, 5 February 2015 13:48 (nine years ago) link
I like the EPs album, and this sounds great too.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 5 February 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVOawOXxSA
whoop
― tender is the late-night daypart (schlump), Monday, 2 March 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
New song hits me harder than the previous one, quite looking forward to this album!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 2 March 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
It's good, but I'm a little bummed that it's not all distorted and grungy like the previous one.
― how's life, Monday, 2 March 2015 23:41 (nine years ago) link
nah it's better
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Monday, 2 March 2015 23:44 (nine years ago) link
Anyone going to see her in London on the 10th of April?
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Thursday, 5 March 2015 09:16 (nine years ago) link
oh man, i could well be tempted. my partner's also a big fan and it's her birthday week but we were planning on a trip to london earlier in the week anyway.
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Thursday, 5 March 2015 10:41 (nine years ago) link
I'm going to the Cambridge gig on the 7th.
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Friday, 6 March 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
We might go to the Cambridge one instead
― Unheimlich Manouevre (dog latin), Friday, 6 March 2015 01:33 (nine years ago) link
I hope the album is more like "Pedestrian" noisy thing
― nostormo, Friday, 6 March 2015 01:58 (nine years ago) link
But I doubt it
http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/courtney-barnett-writes-all-the-best-songs/
― that's not my post, Friday, 6 March 2015 06:47 (nine years ago) link
Pedestrian is striking me as some weird cross between Institutionalized & Parklife. Good stuff.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 7 March 2015 07:26 (nine years ago) link
Her turn of phrase is really quite cringeworthy - "give me all your money and I'll make some orgami honey", "now we've got that percolator, never made a latte greater". I like the grungy sound of the first track but her lyrics just put me in mind of some self-lampooning sadsack character from a Lorrie Moore short story, except no way near as funny or sad or charming or well-written as that would imply.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 7 March 2015 14:06 (nine years ago) link
I love that line and her delivery.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 7 March 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
She can kind of sound like the inside of your head when it's four am and you've been trying to sleep since midnight, tangential and ranty and frustrated. Personally, I find it hilarious and really interesting.
― Leonard Pine, Saturday, 7 March 2015 16:56 (nine years ago) link
I really liked Avant Gardner, but to be honest Pedestrian reminds me a whole, whole lot of Magic Dirt's foray into Aussie rock/rap "Vulcanella" and I can't really get that out of my head and it's not an association I want to make.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjB71I9to30
― dlp9001, Saturday, 7 March 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.thedwarf.com.au/live_review/20736/courtney-barnett-secret-gig
previewing a lot of stuff from the albumn.
― how's life, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:36 (nine years ago) link
New album is great, no sophomore slump!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
hearing a lot of decent aussie indie stuff lately. its in good health. i really like courtney barnett, dick diver and ausmuteants. any other good aussie stuff people can hip me to?
― tayto fan (Michael B), Friday, 13 March 2015 11:54 (nine years ago) link
I like Dollar Bar. http://dollarbar.bandcamp.com/album/paddington-workers-club
― hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 14 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
if you don't mind things in a new ordery/kraut direction, black cab's 'games of the xxi olympiad' album is excellent
also i've been digging dorsal fins, living eyes (labelmates with ausmuteants iirc), pearls (if you avoid the 2 crappy glam tracks on their album the rest is v good shoegaze), babaganouj (only a couple of singles out, but brings back welcome memories of peak half a cow days)
xpost
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 14 March 2015 01:50 (nine years ago) link
also multiple man are fantastic, but that's more of an electro/post punk (DAF/Cabs) thing
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 14 March 2015 01:51 (nine years ago) link
Recent Twerps album isn't bad
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 14 March 2015 02:14 (nine years ago) link
*holds tongue*
― don't ask me why i posted this (electricsound), Saturday, 14 March 2015 02:25 (nine years ago) link
?
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Saturday, 14 March 2015 11:43 (nine years ago) link
Jim - thanks for those recommendations. It's just hard for me to hear young bands and think:Multiple Man - holy shit, someone's been listening to "The Crackdown" over and over. Not in any way meant as a negative!Dick Diver - completely filling the hole left behind by The Go-Betweens.Ausmuteants - Devo obsessives.Pearls - as you described, solid shoegaze.
Nothing new in any of these sounds, but I've got them all queued up for further investigation in Spotify.
Courtney is coming back to Boston in May, and it's already sold out. Glad I saw her last year!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 14 March 2015 18:59 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I find Lorrie Moore super forced and unfunny, but I really like Courtney B. I will give LM another go though.
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 15 March 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
The other Aussie band I know and love, also doing a great job of redoing old stuff, is Total Control. They fought it out with Ausmuteants for my favorite album last year (and won).
― dlp9001, Monday, 16 March 2015 00:14 (nine years ago) link
Was surprised to find that Courtney had never heard of Lorrie Moore. Goes to show that some similarities that seem obvious are coincidental.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Monday, 16 March 2015 09:52 (nine years ago) link
I didn't know she has a girlfriend. Not that that matters in any particular way, just wasn't aware.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 16 March 2015 12:57 (nine years ago) link
A little disappointed to learn "Pedestrian" is the noisiest thing on the album, but I bet I will like the record anyway. I like "Depreston" a lot.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Monday, 16 March 2015 12:58 (nine years ago) link
they do work up a racket a bit
― j., Monday, 16 March 2015 14:49 (nine years ago) link
wikipedia sez
Current
Courtney Barnett – vocals, guitar, songwriting Bones Sloane – bass, backing vocals Dave Mudie – drums Dan Luscombe – guitar
is it her or lunscombe that's playing lead?
― j., Monday, 16 March 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
on Ellen @ 4PM today!
― Tom Waits for no one (outdoor_miner), Monday, 16 March 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
on which recording or performance?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Monday, 16 March 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
the album
― j., Tuesday, 17 March 2015 02:03 (nine years ago) link
think it's luscombe on the new stuff. he seemed to be the shreddy one when I saw the CB band late last year.
― gay cat park (disambiguation) (haitch), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 04:03 (nine years ago) link
'depreston' has seated itself in my consciousness pretty solidly. don't love it but I do find myself singing it...
― gay cat park (disambiguation) (haitch), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
I thought she seemed nervous and performance a bit watery and uncertain on Ellen.
― Hinklepicker, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 04:08 (nine years ago) link
not a whole lot of opportunities to perform on aussie TV any more
RIP hey hey it's saturday
― gay cat park (disambiguation) (haitch), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
The Footy Show didn't book her?
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
footy season hasn't started yet!
― bae sremmurd (monotony), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
she's been around for years, surely could have played half a dozen times by now
― oochie wally (clean version) (sic), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 06:32 (nine years ago) link
crowding out Craig McLachlan's return slot
"Help Your Self"? "Sunday Roast"?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:41 (four years ago) link
also I assume everyone knows about https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/mtv-unplugged
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:43 (four years ago) link
the mtv unplugged set from last year is really good.
― treeship., Friday, 14 August 2020 21:52 (three years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXvlpS0TvE
― Kibbutzki (Jaap Schip), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:34 (two years ago) link
Oh cool, didn't know she had a new album on the way.
― r u rolling pop 2021 (morrisp), Wednesday, 7 July 2021 21:44 (two years ago) link
great single, it’s everything she does best. Album’s not out til November but Milk records has preorders in all formats
― assert (matttkkkk), Thursday, 8 July 2021 00:03 (two years ago) link
New song, "Before You Gotta Go," is really a nice one
― Shallot Shortage 2021 (morrisp), Friday, 13 August 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
https://courtneybarnett.com.au/stemmixer
She put up a few of the new songs in a stem mixer. "Before You Go" sounds great with just drums/vocals/synth pad, gets weird and austere.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 3 October 2021 06:23 (two years ago) link
This sounded good on the radio the other day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrdzqGHqu4
― clemenza, Friday, 22 October 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
Courtney Barnett, I still like her
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 22 October 2021 03:37 (two years ago) link
Album's out, it's ultra ultra ultra low key and pushes in some unusual directions for her. Still the first listen but I'm enjoying it. The drawl is a little unchecked on a few tracks but I'm sure I will ease into it.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 21:35 (two years ago) link
Love the gtr at the end of "Turning Green"
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:21 (two years ago) link
I really got into "Here's the Thing" which is unassuming but has a lot to offer. Noticed Mr Soto's p4k review, don't agree it's her least interesting, but I'll be interested to find out how much it grows on me.
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:34 (two years ago) link
It's a pretty unassuming album, def feels like a "grower"
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:35 (two years ago) link
xxp Hey, Alfred's review kicks off talking about that gtr part! "Good morning!," Mr. Soto
― You Suffer (10 Minute Version) (morrisp), Friday, 12 November 2021 23:46 (two years ago) link
Responses elsewhere seem to be generally more positive. I like it, but I still get more out of her first album.
― birdistheword, Saturday, 13 November 2021 06:57 (two years ago) link
put her on a pedestal and she’ll only disappoint you
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Saturday, 13 November 2021 15:31 (two years ago) link
Hey, Alfred's review kicks off talking about that gtr part! "Good morning!," Mr. Soto
https://media1.giphy.com/media/t8ANqsIUQXty8C7Bpr/giphy.gif
― So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 13 November 2021 15:33 (two years ago) link
she's onto some good ambient noodling https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-the-day-music-from-the-film-anonymous-club
― corrs unplugged, Friday, 4 August 2023 10:45 (eight months ago) link
Another in a series of terrifically well chosen & executed covers by her -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94tz8Y6a3Y
― Nonhuman biologics enthusiast (morrisp), Monday, 7 August 2023 21:03 (eight months ago) link