With songs approximately dead foxes and buying veg,this singer-guitarist’s laconic debut provided the perfect soundtrack for contemporary ennuiSee our countdown of the best albums so farMore on the best culture of 2015Courtney Barnett’s career unofficially began with a bout of hyperventilation. Those outside Melbourne were alerted to Barnett’s laconic genius through a 2013 single, Avant Gardener, and in which an allergic reaction found the newcomer “emphysemin’”. Here was a singer-guitarist who could not only play with language,she could point up the niche absurdities of everyday life in the rambling idiom of Jonathan Richman; she could grab you by the throat even as she made you grin in recognition at the mess of a front garden that, she says, or makes her house gawk like a meth lab.[br] Related: Courtney Barnett review – more fully realised on record Continue reading...
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