Wow can you believe it’s been 6 years since Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile released their collaboration album “Lotta Sea Lice” What’s better than Kurt and Courtney?, Answer Kurt and Courtney each covering a Chastity Belt song!!!
Listen to CB covering “Different Now” , Suicide Squeeze celebrates the band Chastity Belt with the latest in its split 7″ single series–a pair of covers by Friends of the Band and tour mates Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett. For this release, Kurt and Courtney each recorded a song from the band’s third album, 2017’s “I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone“, in their signature styles. Side K is Kurt’s version of “This Time of Night,” on which he lovingly recreates the anxious interplay of Julia Shapiro and Lydia Lund’s guitars, stretching each note of the song’s fraught vocal melody to its breaking point.
Flip the record to Side C for Courtney’s take on “Different Now,” where she pulls the song from its Pacific Northwest haze, leaves it out to dry in the middle of the desert, and wrings something almost joyous from the original’s ambiguity.
“This Time of Night” / “Different Now” will be available on vinyl and digital platforms, with a one-time retail vinyl pressing limited to 1500 (250 pink, 250 black, 1000 blue) copies on heavyweight vinyl.
releases October 27th, 2023
Written by Chastity Belt
Guitars and Vocals by Courtney Barnett
Drums and Synths by Stella Mozgawa
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