Courtney Barnett, I like her

whoever did that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1h9xoSsuPQ

holy shit

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

indeed the video posted by fb on revive :P

it's surely not OK that this is now my favourite CB song, is it?

^ surely is

Am - Dm - G - C - C/B
Em - E7 - F
repeat with variations = bliss

Just bought tix to see her play in October – psyched!

wow that new song is grrrreat, and it - for whatever reason - makes me wonder jus how big she can get? like i wonder if it's possible headlining amphitheaters are in her future? because that seems like it would a tremendous sort of "end result" for someone like her.

super nice song. such a cute video too. i could see it having crossover appeal and getting people interested in her.

another new song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42XXZvrnHbM

Courtney otm

I like this one

Think this one is gonna sound great live - this record seems a lot more focussed and tightly wound than her last couple of records. Which is a relief.

Good stuff.

I hope she tours with a second guitarist. The leads are so great on the last record

Dan Luscombe from The Drones.

last one sounded great live too iirc

She rarely played any leads though - I really missed the solo on Depreston (imo the highlight of that record)

I luv “Depreston” – but I question whether she’s really “never had a latte greater” than what she can make at home with the “percolator.” (I totally buy the cost-saving argument, of course!)

not sure if life gets any better than smoking a cig listening to this new dope single

xp it’s resignation at trading the inner city for flavourless suburbia

Suburbia’s not that bad

seems depressing-ing

Suburbia’s not that bad

Preston's not even that far out, about 40 minutes on the tram, but seriously - you don't think there's an immediate, massive and profound change in life going from Fitzroy to Preston?

40 minutes does seem pretty far

Hey sic I was saying that more as an aside. I grew up in the suburbs

40 minutes does seem pretty far

welcome to Australia

she should try to sing in a non-moany way. that would be a massive improvement. I realise, of course, that's her thing but it seems like a bad habit that she could get out of and one that would hugely improve her tracks.

i like her and like her songs but i can tell she's got stuck singing that extremely moany way and that she could get out of it. it's kinda like, you know thom yorke has a voice but he's somehow decided to moooooane awaaaaay rather than sing for a decade plus.

Odd comparison – I find Yorke’s singing voice unbearable, and I quite like CB’s.

xxxp: Trams can be quite slow. Preston's about 8km (5 miles) from the city centre. Walkable, if it comes to that.

I quite like the two-act structure of "City...".

Don't think it's a moan she's got, just a bit of a drawl. An appealingly lazy way of singing. Another Girl Another Planet came on the radio yesterday and it struck me that some of the phrasing, a bit behind, was very CBish (e.g. "I look ill but I don't care about it", "I don't find it irritating"). The way she sings is a big part of her appeal imo.

eyeball otm. i love her laid back way of singing too.

Kicks otm it’s definitely a drawl. And drawls rule

this thing ain't streaming anywhere yet? what's the hold up!

it comes out on friday

it's okay

^^ promising, actually

Gonna rock this tonight

A bit drab, isn’t it?

I ended up liking this as much as the debut.

is there anything as good as Depreston on it?

That’s encouraging. I’m only one listen in, and I admit that I am a bit put off by the draggy front half.

"City Looks Pretty," "Crippling Self-Doubt and a General Lack of Confidence," "Sunday Roast," "Charity," especially "Charity."

xp do u mean anything similar to depreston

She begins wth a ballad, either a sign of confidence or lunacy.

xp not necessarily. that song just sat way above the rest of the songs on the debut imo, though i love that record.

yeah, I agree

slightly off topic but was thinking a bit about that cool (borrowed) couplet Men are scared that women will laugh at them/Women are scared that men will kill them
that's funny/sad because it's true but I think it's worth noting that men are also scared that men will kill them

This record is classic