Taken from the LP: “Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Think” – Released on March 23rd
Courtney Barnett has announced details of her debut full-length, ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’. The follow-up to ‘The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas’ from 2013 The new album is available on House Anxiety Records / Marathon Artists. The Lead track ‘Pedestrian At Best’ leads the record. It premiered as a Hottest Record on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show, with an accompanying video. Take everything from the Aussie’s first two EPs, up every single aspect: The volume, the intensity the full-band mentality, the cutting lyricism – that’s the new song in a nutshell. It also contains the phrase “put me on a pedestal, I’ll only disappoint you,” which is totally incorrect. the song “grabs and snags with every memorable little snippet, plucked direct from Courtney Barnett’s barnet-full of wry observations. Courtney talks through the new song and the rest of her album. “I showed the riff to the band and we kind of jammed on it; but I couldn’t think of a melody, or a chorus, or any lyrics at all. When we recorded it I just set down a structure, and wrote the lyrics later that night, to the music. It’s how I did the EP single ‘Avant Gardener’ too, and a few other times. it feels like you’re working on a song that’s already been written. You have the luxury to sing over the top of it.
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