'It just gave me a different burst of inspiration just working in a different place with different people and musicians we got working on that album. Interestingly, she also revealed that last year's Kurt Vile collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice, was made over a two-year period, 'kind of the same two years I was writing, recording, and demoing this album.' Been good to just make my brain think in different ways.” 'I didn’t end up recording the whole album like that but I definitely wrote a lot of the new songs on piano and I got this warehouse a year ago that I’ve been writing and working in. 'Piano helped me write different songs in different ways, helped me find different melodies and ideas,' she says.Īs that video teaser illustrated, the grunge heroine has been approaching songwriting on a variety of instruments, from tickling the ivories to returning to her first instrument: the drums. Loading 'Different' is a word that crops up a lot when Courtney discusses Tell Me How You Really Feel. 'I run an independent record label and know how hard everyone works, they have us in for in-stores all the time and I think it’s important to appreciate that and everyone that supports real, good music.” Maybe I’ll be totally wrong but it’s a fun experiment for me if nothing else.”īarnett, who runs her own label Milk! Records, also spoke about releasing 'Nameless, Faceless' as a white label 7'' vinyl single to independent record stores “just because they’re great.' 'I think it’s an interesting experiment in that sense, we talk about how toxic and negative that space can be but I just have faith that there’s a whole lot more positivity and love in people than that. 'That’s what I thought, there’ll be no negatives,' she chuckles. tell Courtney how you really feel, which *extreme sarcastic voice* could only invite insightful and wonderful opinions, right? Speaking of internet anonymity, Courtney Barnett's website contains an open text box where you can, well. 'There's two sides to the meaning: 'Nameless, Faceless' of someone doing some bullying and then the person being bullied, no name or face to them either – kind of goes both ways.' The song also speaks to interactions with the people we don't meet in an age of online trolling, and worse, bullying.

A really powerful way to say something so strong, I didn’t realise until I watched Handmaid’s Tale that Margaret Atwood had said it.' Listen to the interview below: Loading. 'I thought it was such an interesting sentence.

The chorus also borrows from a quote by Margaret Atwood, the prize-winning author behind the dystopian novel-turned-TV-series The Handmaid's Tale. From me growing up as well, the song stems back so far for me.' Courtney says those conversations 'have, in a way' inspired her but admits that 'technically I wrote it a year or so ago before were happening.

Those lines reverberate against the current social climate, where movements like #MeToo and #MeNoMore have surged in the wake of Harvey Weinstein-gate. 'Men are scared that women will laugh at them/I wanna walk through the park in the dark/Women are scared that men will kill them/I hold my keys between my fingers' Lyrically however, there's a darker subtext lurking among the loud guitars on a refrain that goes: 'I remember musically it started from three different chord patterns and then one day I wasn't getting anywhere so I put them all together into one song: the intro part, the verse part, and the chorus,' Court tells Gen and Lewis.

The album is titled Tell Me How You Really Feel (out 18 May) and the first single is 'Nameless, Faceless' (out Friday), a jaunty anthem with the same charm and memorable lyricism that made 2015's Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit an award-hoovering, J Award winning, runaway success. 'It’s finished and I’m happy and really proud of it,' Courtney tells triple j Drive down the line from London. After sharing a video teaser earlier this week, Courtney Barnett is about ready to roll out her highly anticipated second album.

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