Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, have joined forces to release on Friday 13th October (Marathon Artists/Matador/Milk! Recordings/Mom & Pop) a new album collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice. First single ‘Over Everything’, features dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, guitar stylings from the pair. The lyrics play out as a rambling dialogue as they compare notes about song-writing and inspiration – it was the […]
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have revealed that they have completed a collaboration album for release later this year. In support of this they will be leading an all-star band on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of North America this autumn. Kurt Vile said of the collaboration: “It started out as, maybe we’ll do a split 7″ […]
Infectious, barnstorming, and deadpan ‘How To Boil An Egg’ is a standalone, brand new track from singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett. Recorded as a contribution to a collaboration between two of Australia’s leading independent labels, Milk! Records (the label which she founded with partner Jen Cloher), and Bedroom Suck. ‘How To Boil An Egg’ is the result […]
Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 8th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Kissability) Gonjasufi […]
ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly The album that the modern world has been waiting for. The major records to have captured the public consciousness in recent years have been either self-important ego riots (hello Kanye) or tepid retro-pop (Adele, Taylor Swift). Kendrick is interested in being heard by as many as possible, […]
ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly These Walls Sufjan Stevens – Carrie and Lowell No Shade in the Shadow of the Cross Beach house – Depression Cherry Space Song Bjork – Vulnicura Lionsong Grimes – Art Angels Realiti Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys Evil Eyes Hot Chip – Why Make Sense Huarache Lights Courtney Barnett […]
ALBUMS Blanck Mass: Dumb Flesh Alternately transcendental and crushing, Blanck Mass’ second album takes the abrasive ambience of his debut and marries them to stuttering glitch and punishing beats. Powerful, throbbing sound disorientates, blurring into high contrast synths and ravey stabs, walls of droning noise, exotic rhythms and twitchy samples. It’s aggressive, it’s blissed out, […]
ALBUMS Kendrick Lamar – To Pimp a Butterfly It’s topping polls left, right and centre and for good reason. An enormous, sprawling hip hop opus that captures the grim reality of black America, wealth and fame. It’s far from the easiest listen, but the rewards are there for the giving TPAB the attention it thoroughly […]
ALBUMS Chastity Belt – Time to Go Home The Seattle band’s second LP is a brilliant testament to drunken mayhem and pondering self-reflection. Sounding a little like an all female version of DIIV. It is lyrically very open to confronting past regrets whilst, at the same time, feeling sedated to them and looking forward. Chiming […]
-THE O2 RITZ, MANCHESTER – As the year draws to a close, Courtney Barnett can look back on it as being something of a successful one. The last twelve months has seen the release of her latest album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit and the acclaim on the back […]