Courtney Barnett
Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit
Reviewed By: Lauren Rosier
Courtney Barnett garnered enormous success with the release of her U.S. debut record, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and the first single off the record, “Avant Gardener”. Now, Barnett is back with her second LP, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. And this record more than excellent.
The record opens with the extremely catchy, “Elevator Operator”. Upon first listen, the track immediately makes the listener want to bop his or her head to the beat. Barnett’s lyrics are so real, too. You can just envision imagine this twenty-year old kid eating breakfast on the run, feeling sick by his computer, yelling that he’s not going to work and deciding to count the minutes that subways are late.
The first single, “Pedestrian At Best”, is a heavier guitar-oriented track than Barnett’s previous work and she does well with this type of rock music.
The fourth track on Sometimes I Sit and Think is “Small Poppies” and it stands an epic 7:01 running time. The song has an amazing bluesy guitar throughout, yet also has the soft similarity to be the “Anonymous Club” of the record.
I love the simplicity of Barnett’s “Depreston” — the effortlessness of her guitar and vocals. The “if you’ve got a spare half a million you could knock it down and start re-building” just makes you want to hum along.
Overall, this record is amazing, and she did a great job with putting together a collection of songs for her sophomore effort.
Rating: Bad-Ass
