The legendary Jabes was the first to chime: as the resident Australian aficionado of Cougar Microbes, naturally my top is Melbourne‘s own Courtney Barnett. More of a spoken word artist than a singer, Barnett sing-speaks the truth through her poetry. Highlighting our everyday indecisions, on “Nobody Really Cares if You Go To The Party” she specifically details to common inner battles we all have with the fear of missing out, and not wanting to bother putting on a smile for anyone. Backing her vocals with a gritty garage-rock guitar, Barnett has managed to turn witty lyrics cool again
Yifat added: Everything is brilliant about this album, starting from the title. Listening to it in its entirety feels like spending an hour with Courtney herself, listening to daily situations and some of her own perspective of the world. The brilliance is in the way she could put her music around her witty lyrics, and the result is one of the best albums of this year and maybe of this decade so far in my mind.
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