Courtney Barnett has shared brand new song ‘Need a Little Time’.
The latest track, taken from her new album Tell Me How You Really Feel, was directed by Danny Cohen and follows Barnett floating through space. The new album will be released on May 18th via Mom + Pop Records, Marathon Artists, and Milk! Records. This new song follows the album’s first single ‘Nameless, Faceless’ .
On top of the latest news, Courtney Barnett has revealed that she will be taking new material on the road. The tour, which includes several UK shows in May, will be in Leeds, Glasgow, Manchester, Bristol and London:
Courtney Barnett 2018 UK tour dates:
Tue 29 May – O2 Academy, Leeds
Sat 2 Jun – Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow
Mon 4 Jun – Manchester Academy
Tue 5 Jun – O2 Academy, Bristol
Wed 6 Jun – Roundhouse, London
Courtney Barnett will release her follow-up to her acclaimed debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit on the 18th May.
The album is titled Tell Me How You Feel, the first single from it, “Nameless, Faceless” is an infectious indie anthem that simmers with indignation and sarcasm. It examines the phenomenon of incessant and anonymous internet trolls, and every lyric is memorable as Barnett quotes one of the more creative burns she’s received in a comments section, “I could eat a bowl of alphabet soup and spit out better words than you”.
In fact, it would be pure comedy if it didn’t invariably and insidiously cross over into anxiety about ones safety in the real world… illustrated perfectly by the chorus which borrows from a famous Margaret Atwood quote “I want to walk through the park in the dark / Men are scared that women will laugh at them / I want to walk through the park in the dark / Women are scared that men will kill them / I hold my keys between my fingers”.
‘Nameless, Faceless’ is taken from Courtney Barnett’s upcoming album ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ out on 18th May 2018. Milk Records
Hachiku have just released a new song Murray’s Lullabyand announced a Melbourne launch show at The Curtin onFriday the 2nd of March. ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ marks the first time Ostendorf has collaborated with a mix engineer, enlisting the talents of Tim Shiels (Double J, Gotye). She describes the experience as “the perfect collaboration. Tim made some bold choices that brought something new to the mix and made the song the best it could be.”
New single ‘Murray’s Lullaby’ by Hachiku. *Hachiku (solo) will be on tour with Jen Cloher in Europe and the UK this February
Picture this, on tour in the UK recently Jen Cloher, and her band of Courtney Barnett, Bones Sloane and Jen Sholakis enter a room. They take up their respective instruments, all facing one another from their respective stations. Greg Walker presses record. As R.E.M. once sang, sweetness follows. Jen Cloher abandoned her folk-rock roots some five years ago and has never looked back. It’s given her a Dylan-goes-electric reinvention, a second shot at glory and unquestionably her strongest album release to date. It all starts here for Cloher’s eponymous fourth album, and once that groove is locked in there’s no getting out of it. You’ll see it coming, believe.
Jen Cloher’s fourth album is the culmination of a period of artistic and personal growth in which the artist took her rightful place as a punk-rock figurehead of Melbourne’s famous DIY music scene. She is an outspoken advocate for artist rights and co-founder of the incredible Milk! Records label, which includes the likes of Courtney Barnett and Fraser A. Gorman among its luminaries. Since 2014, her output has been increasingly biting, witty and poetic, with her last album, the critically laudedIn Blood Memory representing an artistic apex for the artist and garnering her a prestigious Australian Music Prize nomination. The self-titled album, Jen Cloher, represents another quantum leap forward for the artist. Recorded amidst the rolling greenery of South-Eastern Australia and mixed at Jeff Tweedy’s famous Loft Studios in Chicago, the songs are split by Courtney Barnett’s extraordinary lead guitar and anchored by the rhythm section of Bones Sloane and Jen Sholakis. The end result is bold, assured, and piercingly observed, seeing Cloher face up to painful truths with unwavering honesty and emerge triumphant.
Strong Woman is taken from Jen Cloher’s self-titled album out now Released through Milk! Records :
Starring Jen Cloher, Courtney Barnett, Bones Sloane & Jen Sholakis.
“It’s self-titled.” The three-word answer is all that Jen Cloher requires to describe her recently completed fourth album, a letter in triplicate addressed to themes of Love, Music and Australia (the beautiful and the terrible). Jen likes best to tell the truth.
Jen Cloher is the culmination of a period of artistic and personal growth in which the artist took her rightful place as the punk-rock figurehead of Melbourne’s famous DIY music scene. The NIDA Graduate is an outspoken advocate for artist rights and the co-founder of the incredible Milk! Records label (Courtney Barnett, Loose Tooth, Fraser A. Gorman, Jade Imagine, East Brunswick All Girls Choir). Cloher’s fascinating life-story and compelling political voice is enough justification to pay her attention, but it’s the music that will have you returning again and again.
Since 2014, Jen’s regular musical contributions to Milk! Record’sdiscography of 7″ releases and compilations have been increasingly biting, witty and poetic. It’s fair to say that she was in a purple patch when she put the finishing touches to her stunning new record with engineer Greg Walker amidst the rolling greenery of Jumbunna in Victoria’s Gippsland. The band that first played together four years ago on Cloher’s acclaimed third album, the Australian Music Prize nominated In Blood Memory, are bold and assured, the songs split by Courtney Barnett’s extraordinary lead-guitar and anchored by the rhythm section of Bones Sloane and Jen Sholakis. The record was completed in March 2017 with Tom Schick at Jeff Tweedy’s famous ‘Loft’ Studios in the depths of the Chicago’s winter.
Second single from Jen Cloher’s self-titled album released in August 2017.
The best part about finding out about Jen Cloher on her fourth album is that I feel like I just got four great albums to listen to. She has a certain swagger and cool about her that is some sort of a mix between Patti Smith and Chrissy Hynde. Songs chug along meaty hooks as her throaty voice delivers the goods.
For those not in the know, Jen Cloher is the wife of Courtney Barnett. this album stands on its own merit. But the main reason, for mentioning her relationship with Barnett is that it plays a role. As mentioned, Cloher has 3 prior albums and is Barnett’s senior by 10 years. To see her wife hit international acclaim on her first LP would shake anyone. She delves into shit with Forgot Myself and Sensory Memory. It doesn’t come across as bitter; more honest than any person would feel.
Second single from Jen Cloher’s self-titled album out August 2017
But lest you think this LP is all about her and Courtney. She hits on some heavy subjects and takes the religious right down a peg on Kinda Biblical. The following track is Great Australian Bite, a track about how Australian artists suffer from a grueling touring schedule to make any sort of an international name for themselves.
This is an absolute gem of an album. Jen Cloher deserves all the plaudits she gets.
We are very excited to share with you Hachiku’s touching new clip for “Zombie Slayer”, the second single of their brilliant debut EP released earlier this year. Directed by Roxanne Halley with cinematography by Felicia Smith featuring friendly ghosts, salsa-dancing grandparents and Anika’s 10-year-old self.
AND ON TOP OF THAT: Hachiku will be going on Australian tour
The debut self-titled EP from Hachiku
Tracklisting
1. Zombie Slayer
2. Song For Jeffrey
3. Moon Face
4. Al’s Wisdom List
5. Polar Bears
Jen Cloher is an indie-folk/rock singer/songwriter from Melbourne. She has released three albums and a couple of EPs and singles, She has been dating indie darling/rising superstar Courtney Barnett for several years, and they’ve collaborated on each other’s records before. On August 11th, she’ll release her fourth album “Jen Cloher on Milk Records which is the label that Cloher and Barnett run together.
The song is about “the sacrifices and difficulties of maintaining a long-distance relationship with a high-profile partner”. They live together, but Barnett spent a long time touring with her brilliant debut “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit”, so I guess they’ve spent a lot of time apart from each other.
First single from Jen Cloher’s self-titled album (2017) released through Milk! Records.
Second single from Jen Cloher’s self-titled album out August 2017. The album was recorded in a one-room studio in a rural Australian town, then mixed in Jeff Tweedy’s studio in Chicago. Barnett contributed guitar and vocals to the entire album. Their friend Kurt Vile also played guitar on one track, and Andrew “Bones” Sloane (bass) is a full-time member of the band. Both are also frequent collaborators with Barnett.
Released through Milk! Records / Marathon Artists.
Sometimes, a break is called for. Possibly to give an artist a pause for breath, or equally maybe to give the audience a time to reflect, and begin longing for the next thing. For the Princess of Brunswick and environs, Courtney Barnett, this year has seen an almost deliberately lower profile, possibly to recover from that period where the world went crazy for this talented Australian who seemed to be touring ever since. There’s still been room for special occasions – like, you’re not going to knock back singing with Patti Smith now are you? Or the chance to be part of a series of vinyl Split Singles between Barnett and consort Jen Cloher’s Milk! Records cottage industry and the Brisbane’s label of similar attitude, So, a new Barnett tune is here.
A new oldsong called How To Boil An Egg for the Milk Records and Bedroom Suck collaboration SplitSingles Club!
Courtney says: I used to perform this song at all the open-mics when i was 21. It never got recorded, so for personal-posterity i updated it and made this version recently when I was bunkered up in the bush doin some demos for my next album. In tradition of the Milk! Records compilation releases, like “Pickles From The Jar” or “Three Packs A Day”, i wanted to include a song of mine for Split Singles Club that was a tad left of album-centre. it’s a songwriting experiment that doesn’t really belong anywhere else.
Well, kinda. How To Boil An Egg (Milk Records!) is a perfect title for the artist, but the tune in fact dates back to her early open-mic days, here recorded for the first time with herself singing and playing everything on it. There’s a slight country twang to it, and her usual eye that can make mundane minutiae so interesting. And don’t forget to flip said record over to hear the also damn good Blank Realm, who have a scruffy charm of their own.
The Fat Angel Sings 