Courtney Barnett, I like her

hmm not bad, save for teeth & tongue who i utterly despise

One day Street Chant might actually release a new record. It's all gone a bit Guns n Roses really.

I saw her the other week down here in end-of-the-world Hobart (also her home for a few years). I have never seen anyone have that much fun playing guitar. Not all the songs are top drawer, but when she's on, she's ON.

"Pickles from the Jar" is an extra track that's appeared on a couple of Milk Records compilations:

http://store.milkrecords.com.au/album/a-pair-of-pears-with-shadows-a-milk-records-compilation-2
Massive shout out to Hobart on there.

Her new upcoming album has a title, and it's not cryptic! :-o

• "Courtney album!

• "first taste of the new CB album sometimes i sit and think, and sometimes i just sit will be in your ears NEXT WEEK. keep an eye on our Facebook and Twitters for the announcement."

Aaaaahhhh the title is a quote from A.A. Milne, yeahIknewthat.

sweet!

I love the Double EP, high hopes for this.

Cool. Was happy to see she's on the Bonnaroo lineup, looking forward to seeing her.

New song sounds good. Pissed off and interesting. Sure you might say Dylan Nirvana hybrid but I don't think it is obvious enough to make it especially derivative. In other words it sounds like Courtney Barnett and that is very fucking fine.

Well ok then, nary a ripple on the ilx surface. This song is kicking me in the pants today.

I like Courtney Barnett too but the production on the new song is not my thing

i like her too.

wish the production was more aggressive and less indie though

I dig the new tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-nr1nNC3ds#t=46

This is a jam.

I like the EPs album, and this sounds great too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NVOawOXxSA

whoop

New song hits me harder than the previous one, quite looking forward to this album!

It's good, but I'm a little bummed that it's not all distorted and grungy like the previous one.

nah it's better

Anyone going to see her in London on the 10th of April?

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.

I'm going to the Cambridge gig on the 7th.

We might go to the Cambridge one instead

I hope the album is more like "Pedestrian" noisy thing

But I doubt it

http://grantland.com/hollywood-prospectus/courtney-barnett-writes-all-the-best-songs/

Pedestrian is striking me as some weird cross between Institutionalized & Parklife. Good stuff.

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.

I love that line and her delivery.

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.

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

http://www.thedwarf.com.au/live_review/20736/courtney-barnett-secret-gig

previewing a lot of stuff from the albumn.

New album is great, no sophomore slump!

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?

I like Dollar Bar.
http://dollarbar.bandcamp.com/album/paddington-workers-club

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)

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also multiple man are fantastic, but that's more of an electro/post punk (DAF/Cabs) thing

Recent Twerps album isn't bad

*holds tongue*

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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!

Ha, I find Lorrie Moore super forced and unfunny, but I really like Courtney B. I will give LM another go though.

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).

Was surprised to find that Courtney had never heard of Lorrie Moore. Goes to show that some similarities that seem obvious are coincidental.

I didn't know she has a girlfriend. Not that that matters in any particular way, just wasn't aware.

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.

they do work up a racket a bit

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?

on Ellen @ 4PM today!

is it her or lunscombe that's playing lead?

on which recording or performance?

the album

Oh cool, didn't know she had a new album on the way.

great single, it’s everything she does best. Album’s not out til November but Milk records has preorders in all formats

New song, "Before You Gotta Go," is really a nice one

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.

This sounded good on the radio the other day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTrdzqGHqu4

Courtney Barnett, I still like her

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.

Love the gtr at the end of "Turning Green"

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.

It's a pretty unassuming album, def feels like a "grower"

xxp Hey, Alfred's review kicks off talking about that gtr part! "Good morning!," Mr. Soto

Responses elsewhere seem to be generally more positive. I like it, but I still get more out of her first album.

put her on a pedestal and she’ll only disappoint you

Hey, Alfred's review kicks off talking about that gtr part! "Good morning!," Mr. Soto

https://media1.giphy.com/media/t8ANqsIUQXty8C7Bpr/giphy.gif

she's onto some good ambient noodling
https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/album/end-of-the-day-music-from-the-film-anonymous-club

Another in a series of terrifically well chosen & executed covers by her -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F94tz8Y6a3Y

Good new tune, Site Unseen ft Waxahatchie. Fun video as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGyGDtbEcXE

I’m in the crowd for her JJJ anniversary show on YouTube, it was a good’n. Except they cut “Avant Gardener” for reasons I don’t understand.

I actually like TTTTT better than her debut. I think I prefer her in a slightly downbeat mode.

Wow, good thread, dunno why I didn't post here. 2015 ballot comments:

Back in Australia, Courtney Barnett, like her Melbourne neighbors Dick Diver, seems to have learned from the Go-Betweens, especially Forster (whose own, long-awaited return is mostly too much a nostalgic, watered-down recycling, though I do like the samba[?!]), re how to compress and clarify (with oblique strokes) her observational verses, and her guitar on the choruses, as she says, draws on Television, for bracing yet partial release from verse situations---partial cos she's neurotic(does have a sense of humor, though). The double-EP was lyrically denser, but also excellent.

Yeah, don't sleep on the double-EP! Not seeing much mention of it here.

I love Courtney Barnett! Just found out about her recently, totally scratches that 90s itch

Oddly enough, Split Peas is still the only release I know well. "Scotty Says" and "Anonymous Club" are what drew me in. I appear to be saving up whatever subsequent deep cuts 3RRR/3PBS haven't much played for a rainy day!

That 'stemmixer' thing posted 4.5 years upthread is superfab. My impromptu mixes of the first half of TTTTT have been bitchin' just now.

A few years ago I suggested via social media that she should cover “Waiting on a Friend” which didn’t receive a reply, but there’s a new song which has me wondering if she fooled around with it.

since of course I am the only person who has heard or would recommend that ultra obscure piece

Creature of Habit is the fourth studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. It was released on 27 March 2026 by Mom + Pop Music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPgaP3SJZKU

It's all on YouTube with striking mantis shots for those that don't have music videos made for them.

It's really good, the songs even held up really well without a rhythm section when I saw her at Rough Trade here in NYC. (She warned us she probably would skip the guitar soloing that's supposed to close "One Thing at a Time" (see above), which is a shame because the record has a great solo, but it was still very enjoyable to hear.)