Courtney Barnett (photo by Christo Herriot) made history when she became the first ever solo female artist to win the Best Rock Album category at the ARIA Awards. Barnett’s achievement was all the more significant given the fact that she released her album independently through her own label Milk! Records, she’s the second fully independent artist to win the award. The award is deserved recognition for Barnett whose second album Tell...
Today Courtney Barnett shares the video for ‘Charity’, taken from her recently released album Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch below! The video, by respected cinematographer Ashley Connor was shot on glorious 16mm film and captures fly-on-the-wall footage of Barnett and her band spending a day in Toronto, Canada. The beautiful honest depiction of a day on the road is interspersed with a roaring live performance of one of...
Courtney Barnett enters a remarkable new phase of her musical evolution with the release of her second album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out today! From its title to the cover image Barnett reveals a new-found confidence and perspective. Where she once examined the world through self-analysis, Tell Me How You Really Feel shifts that focus to those she interacts with – the good ones, the bad ones, the loved ones. Those...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘Sunday Roast’, the fourth taste from her forthcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel which is released next Friday, May 18. Watch the accompanying video below! ‘Sunday Roast’ (which was given a very special limited release on 12” alongside ‘City Looks Pretty’ to celebrate Record Store Day last month) is the beautiful album closer, an ode to friendship and simple pleasures, the perfect conclusion to a rich and complex record,...
Courtney Barnett shares ‘City Looks Pretty’, the third single from her upcoming album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out Friday 18 May. Watch below! ‘City Looks Pretty’ has Barnett experimenting with new song structures while delivering one of her most exhilarating guitar performances to date. It’s metronomic drive and squealing lead guitar provide the sonic foundation from which Barnett sings a melodic exploration of friendship, place and home. A Record...
Courtney Barnett releases ‘Need A Little Time’, the sublime second single from her album Tell Me How You Really Feel, out May 18. Accompanied by a wondrous video by Barnett’s frequent visual collaborator Danny Cohen. Watch below! The infectious punk-rock of first single ‘Nameless, Faceless’ simmered with indignation and rage in what was Barnett’s most explicitly political song to date, but it only delivered a hint at what might be...
After a mysterious album teaser online and indie record stores worldwide unexpectedly receiving vinyl copies of a previously unheard song, Courtney Barnett announces her second studio album Tell Me How You Really Feel, and shares its scathing lead single ‘Nameless, Faceless’. Watch the video below! In Tell Me How You Really Feel Barnett has revealed a thrilling and unexpected shift. From its title (A question? An order?) to the cover image, Barnett...
