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Courtney Barnett to release snazzy new deluxe edition of ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit’
The expanded debut will include live versions of many of Barnett’s earlier EP tracks.
Courtney Barnett’s debut ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit’ is to get the deluxe treatment, coming out in snazzy, expanded form next month. Out on November 6th via House Anxiety/ Marathon Artists, the new edition will feature Barnett’s Record Store Day cover of John Cale’s ‘Close Watch,’ along with several live session versions of EP staples like ‘History Eraser’ and ‘Avant Gardener’.
The souped-up box set will also include a poster, and a handful of Polaroids taken by the Australian singer. There’s the option to snap it up on yellow vinyl, too. The tracklist for the expanded version of ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit’ is as follows:
1. Elevator Operator
2. Pedestrian at Best
3. An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in NY)
4. Small Poppies
5. Depreston
6. Aqua Profunda!
7. Dead Fox
8. Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party
9. Debbie Downer
10. Kim’s Caravan
11. Boxing Day Blues
12. Lance Jr (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
13. Canned Tomatoes (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
14. Scotty Says (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
15. History Eraser (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
16. Avant Gardener (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
17. David (Live at The Electric Lady Studios)
18. Close Watch (Written by John Cale)
Listen to Courtney Barnett’s new Jack White produced cover of The Boys Next Door’s ‘Shivers’ below.
Records, etc at
Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time (Vinyl LP - black)
Courtney Barnett - Things Take Time, Take Time (Cd)
Courtney Barnett - The Double EP - A Sea of Split Peas (Vinyl LP - green)
Courtney Barnett - Tell Me How You Really Feel (Vinyl LP)
Courtney Barnett - Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (Vinyl LP - black)
Courtney Barnett - End of the Day (Music from the Film Anonymous Club) (Vinyl LP - red)
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