• Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit is the first full length album from Aussie artist Courtney Barnett, and it’s an immediate classic – choc full of urban poetry wrapped in gorgeous melodies.
• The album is a mix of folk, country and garage rock, with each track different from the others.
• For me, Courtney’s phenomenal musicianship is matched and (somehow) often exceeded by her ability to tell stories. I’ve always been a sucker for a good story, and Courtney delivers in spades.
• Courtney’s lyrics reveal a wisdom beyond her young years when she sings/talks  “We all think that we’re nobody, but everybody is somebody else’s somebody” on Kim’s Caravan (a personal favourite on the album) behind a wall of reverb.
• Even Courtney’s forlorn search for a home in Melbourne’s suburbs in ‘Depreston’ provides us with as a witty take on the situation, when she sings about the obscene price of a dilapidated California bungalow in a cul-de-sac,  or the ‘drop-in-the-ocean’ effect of saving $23 a week by making her own coffee when a realtor is telling her she could knock down a deceased estate and rebuild…if she had a spare half a million.  [For those unaware, the song’s title is a witty take on Melbourne suburb ‘Preston’].
• On ‘Pedestrian at best’, Courtney sings: “put me on a pedestal and I’ll only disappoint you”…and while this highlights her self depreciating style, this couldn’t be further from the truth.
• This is an honest album full of earnest musicianship that combines darkly humorous insights into life that will make you want to hit replay as soon as it’s over.

Read more:

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20268-sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit/

http://www.npr.org/2015/03/26/395582340/courtney-barnett-makes-ennui-vivid-on-debut-album

http://www.popmatters.com/review/191643-courtney-barnett-sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit/

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