Though this track appears on her 2015 album "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit", Barnett started performing the song live at the start of 2014. (These lyrics have been taken from her acoustic performance of the song at WFUV Radio in March of that year.) She explained the song in her own words on the Song Exploder podcast on January 7, 2016. The song’s narrative structure – quite typical for the Barnett – takes a mundane subject and sings about it with mundane delivery. However, like much of Barnett’s work, the ostensibly mundane observations trace her gra… read more
Though this track appears on her 2015 album "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit", Barnett started performing the song live… read more
Though this track appears on her 2015 album "Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit", Barnett started performing the song live at the start of 2014. (These lyrics … read more
Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer/songwriter originally from Sydney, New South Wales; later moving to Hobart, Tasmania where she began performing music in 2006 before relocating to Melbourne in 2010. Barnett puts a lot of effort into sounding effortless. Her songs are wild and wooly and wordy, her lyrics plainspoken and delivered like she’s making them up on the spot. Barnett was originally a part of several bands, including Immigrant Union and The Olivettes before focusing on her solo work. In 2012, Barnett started her own record label, Milk! Records, and recorded her debut… read more
Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer/songwriter originally from Sydney, New South Wales; later moving to Hobart, Tasmania where she began performing music in 2006 before relocating to M… read more
Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer/songwriter originally from Sydney, New South Wales; later moving to Hobart, Tasmania where she began performing music in 2006 before relocating to Melbourne in 2010. Barnett puts a lot of effort… read more