The singer-songwriter says it’s nice not to have the added stress of lyrics, for which she has been so well known previously, on her new album.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.It’s the not-very-rock hour of 9am in London and Courtney Barnett is Zooming from a friend’s basement. “Hello, hello, it’s me!” she says theatrically, then, “I think I’m gonna leave my video off. The truth is I’m a bit sick and –” she emits a weary sigh. “You don’t need to see this face.”
Less overdrive, more delay. Is there a life metaphor in there? “Hmm. I’m sure there’s something in there to psychoanalyse.” The common ’90s childhood dream of rock stardom wasn’t on Barnett’s agenda, she says, when she started burning her songs onto CDs for friends and playing open mic nights as a teenager in Hobart. “I just dreamed of making music,” she says. “Before I even started playing guitar I wanted to learn the piano and the drums.”might sound like a drastic left-turn to some fans, but it’s all “tracing that same intrigue and taking the time to study something and expand on it,” she says.
“Not to say that all of it is negative or emotional or highly charged. A lot of it is really positive and beautiful, people sharing beautiful moments. But I do think it’s fascinating. It’s such a human thing to want to reach out and seek those answers.”The gruelling success of the past eight years has clearly afforded Barnett some space to do that.
“I guess for me, it’s the exact opposite. Not moving, being in this quite desolate place, but being able to draw so many different emotions out of that one vista. I think that’s also the challenge.”She first visited the spectacular national park two hours east of Los Angeles in 2014, before her rocket had gone stratospheric.
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