Courtney Barnett, In The Greene Space

Soundcheck | May 19, 2015

Courtney Barnett's songs are wild, shaggy and wordy, mixing witty, mundane, and sometimes heartbreaking observations with devastating self-assessment. And with a sound rooted in the slack jangle of the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Barnett delivers plainspoken lyrics and roll off the tongue as if she's thinking them up on the spot. You can hear that in her break-out song "Avant Gardener" or in "Pedestrian At Best," from this year's superb new album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, in which she spits off a list of personal insecurities and internal monologues to an former love. 

Watch the Australia native spotlight songs from Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit in a live session from WNYC's Greene Space.

Check out more photos from the session at Soundcheck's Tumblr page.

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