Whether backed by sprightly indie-rock or brittle acoustic meanderings, Barnett's deadpan conversational delivery belies a witty incisiveness as she sings and strums not only about fragile lives and loves, but finding joy, heartbreak, and confusion in the mundane minutiae of deciding whether or not to mow the lawns, buy organic vegetables, and playing SimCity.
• Courtney Barnett. Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Milk! Records.
• Four and a half stars (out of five)
Single download: Depreston
For those who like: Aimee Mann, Laura Marling, fair dinkum Ocker sheilas
- John Hayden
