Courtney Barnett announces new album and UK tour, shares ‘Pedestrian At Best’

Courtney Barnett has announced details of her debut full-length, ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’.

The follow-up to ‘The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas’ from 2013 is due out 23rd March this year on House Anxiety / Marathon Artists.

Lead track ‘Pedestrian At Best’ leads the record. It premiered as a Hottest Record on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show, with an accompanying video. Take everything from the Aussie’s first two EPs, up every single aspect: The volume, the intensity the full-band mentality, the cutting lyricism - that’s the new song in a nutshell. It also contains the phrase “put me on a pedestal, I’ll only disappoint you,” which is totally incorrect.

Head here for DIY’s initial verdict on ‘Pedestrian At Best’, with El Hunt saying the song “grabs and snags with every memorable little snippet, plucked direct from Courtney Barnett’s barnet-full of wry observations.”

In a new interview with DIY, Courtney talks through the new song and the rest of her album. “I showed the riff to the band and we kind of jammed on it; but I couldn’t think of a melody, or a chorus, or any lyrics at all. When we recorded it I just set down a structure, and wrote the lyrics later that night, to the music. It’s how I did [EP single] ‘Avant Gardener’ too, and a few other times. it feels like you’re working on a song that’s already been written. You have the luxury to sing over the top of it. It’s kind of fun to do it that way.”

Track Listing:
01 Elevator Operator
02 Pedestrian at Best
03 An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in NY)
04 Small Poppies
05 Depreston
06 Aqua Profunda!
07 Dead Fox
08 Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party
09 Debbie Downer
10 Kim’s Caravan
11 Boxing Day Blues

Check out ‘Pedestrian at Best’ below, and scroll down to see the artwork: