Courtney Barnett - Depreston

C-Barn (that’s our nickname for Courtney Barnett, for the uninitiated) is a songwriter fully capable of the blisteringly catty and cynical. Mostly though, her music’s fun, beautifully produced and filled with razor-sharp, deadpan delivery. ‘Depreston’ is an altogether folksier affair than ‘Pedestrian At Best’, with ‘Terror Twilight’ era Pavement guitar leads and a sprawling, walking chord progression. There’s a breezy, cool feel to the track. “If you’ve got a spare half a million, you could knock it down and start rebuilding” lends itself as a house-building metaphor, but it’s a clear nod to Barnett’s move out into Melbourne’s suburbs, a seemingly much maligned, regrettable migration.