7.5
Avg Score
7
Opinions
#9,866
All Time
10
Tracks
“One of the world’s sharpest songwriters turns inward, thinks deep, and blisses out”
“Three years after her last studio album, the rock singer/songwriter has mellowed out to meaningful effect”
“As a songwriter, Courtney Barnett is deft at drawing on our day-to-day clutter to tell weightier stories. On her stream-of-consciousness debut ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’ the Australian artist meditated on everything from mortality to gentrification by zooming in on cracked walls and corrugated ceilings, while its grungier follow-up ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ dug deep”
“Courtney Barnett has always leaned into the more contemplative end of the stereotypical slacker rock continuum. Usually typified by toothy grins and a deadpan gaze, her tentatively-titled debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit was a pokerfaced breakthrough, revelling in the surreal minutiae of a good pub anecdote, moulding the liminal space between myth and reality into sh”
“Courtney Barnett begins a lush toned new era with Things Take Time, Take Time”
“The Australian singer-songwriter’s fourth album has the directness of a collection of demos. Barnett sounds characteristically laconic; she’s at her best when she lets her guitar take the lead.”
