{"id":23479,"date":"2015-03-02T10:32:25","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T18:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=23479"},"modified":"2017-01-17T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T22:10:16","slug":"listen-to-courtney-barnetts-great-new-song-depreston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2015-03\/listen-to-courtney-barnetts-great-new-song-depreston\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to Courtney Barnett&#8217;s Great New Song &#8220;Depreston&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-23480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett-650x435.png\" alt=\"Courtney-Barnett\" width=\"635\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett-650x435.png 650w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett-450x301.png 450w, https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Courtney-Barnett.png 705w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-06\/watch-courtney-barnett-perform-songs-and-cover-lou-reed-with-billy-bragg-on-wfuv-rockwiz-and-nowness\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>we fell hopelessly in love<\/strong><\/a> with the music of <a href=\"http:\/\/courtneybarnett.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Courtney Barnett<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Her song <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2014-01\/aussie-time-the-australian-open-and-courtney-barnetts-avant-gardener-tennis-video\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Avant Gardener<\/strong><\/em><\/a> was easily one of the <strong>Best Songs of 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Barnett recently announced the release of a new album entitled, <em><strong>Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit<\/strong><\/em>, to be released on March 23rd.\u00a0 Never to sugar-coat things, we were not overly impressed by the first sample from the album, the punkish track <em><strong>Pedestrian At Best.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0 But thankfully all is good again in<strong> Barnett-world<\/strong> with the release of the acutely-finessed new song <em><strong>Depreston<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Check it out below as it chugs along with<strong> Barnett&#8217;s<\/strong> wistful lyrics.\u00a0 And as always,<strong> Barnett<\/strong> gets heart-achingly personal and incisive, and lulls you further in with the coda&#8217;s repeated mantra.\u00a0 It&#8217;s what she does so well.\u00a0 We can&#8217;t wait for the new album!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Barnett<\/strong> is soon out on tour, and you can see the dates at bottom.<\/p>\n<p>The song&#8217;s full lyrics are below the video.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1NVOawOXxSA\" width=\"625\" height=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You said we should look out further,<br \/>\nI guess it wouldn\u2019t hurt us.<br \/>\nWe don\u2019t have to be around all these coffee shops.<br \/>\nNow we\u2019ve got that percolator,<br \/>\nnever made a latte greater.<br \/>\nI\u2019m saving twenty-three dollars a week.<\/p>\n<p>We drive to a house in Preston,<br \/>\nwe see police arresting<br \/>\na man with his hand in a bag.<br \/>\nHow\u2019s that for first impressions?<br \/>\nThis place seems depressing.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s a \u201cCalifornian bungalow in a cul-de-sac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s got a lovely garden,<br \/>\na garage for two cars to park in<br \/>\n(\u201cor a lot of room for storage if you\u2019ve just got one\u201d).<br \/>\nAnd it\u2019s going pretty cheap you say?<br \/>\n\u201cWell it\u2019s a deceased estate\u2026<br \/>\naren\u2019t the pressed metal ceilings great?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then I see the handrails in the shower,<br \/>\na collection of those canisters for coffee, tea and flour,<br \/>\nand a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>And I can\u2019t think of floorboards anymore,<br \/>\nwhether the front room faces south or north,<br \/>\nand I wonder what she bought it for.<\/p>\n<p>(If you\u2019ve got a spare half a million, you should knock it down and start rebuilding)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>03-07 Meredith, Australia &#8211; Golden Plains Festival<br \/>\n03-08 Launceston, Australia &#8211; A Festival Called Panama<br \/>\n03-17-18 Austin, TX &#8211; South By Southwest<br \/>\n03-25 Paris, France &#8211; Le Divan Du Monde $<br \/>\n03-27 Brighton, England &#8211; Concorde 2<br \/>\n03-28 Bristol, England &#8211; The Fleece<br \/>\n03-29 Leeds, England &#8211; Brudenell Social Club<br \/>\n03-30 Sheffield, England &#8211; The Leadmill<br \/>\n03-31 Newcastle Upon Tyne, England &#8211; Newcastle University<br \/>\n04-02 Glasgow, Scotland &#8211; Art School<br \/>\n04-03 Manchester, England &#8211; Gorilla<br \/>\n04-04 Dublin, Ireland &#8211; Whelan&#8217;s<br \/>\n04-05 Nottingham, England &#8211; Bodega<br \/>\n04-07 Cambridge, England &#8211; The Junction<br \/>\n04-08 Norwich, England &#8211; Waterfront<br \/>\n04-09-10 London, England &#8211; Electric Ballroom<br \/>\n04-12 Berlin, Germany &#8211; Heimathafen<br \/>\n05-01 Adelaide, Australia &#8211; The Gov\u00a0@<br \/>\n05-02 Perth, Australia &#8211; The Bakery\u00a0@<br \/>\n05-08 Sydney, Australia &#8211; The Metro\u00a0@<br \/>\n05-09 West End Qld, Australia &#8211; The HiFi\u00a0@<br \/>\n05-15 Melbourne, Australia &#8211; The Forum @<br \/>\n05-18 Boston, MA &#8211; The Sinclair *<br \/>\n05-19 New York, NY &#8211; Bowery Ballroom *<br \/>\n05-20 New York, NY &#8211; Bowery Ballroom *<br \/>\n05-21 New York, NY &#8211; Bowery Ballroom *<br \/>\n05-23-25 George, WA &#8211; Sasquatch Festival<br \/>\n05-27 Morrison, CO &#8211; Red Rocks #!<br \/>\n05-29 Napa, CA &#8211; Bottle Rock Napa Valley<br \/>\n05-30-31 Los Angeles, CA &#8211; The Roxy Theatre *<br \/>\n06-02 San Diego, CA &#8211; Casbah *<br \/>\n06-05 Austin, TX &#8211; The Mohawk *<br \/>\n06-06 Dallas, TX &#8211; Club Dada *<br \/>\n06-07 New Orleans, LA &#8211; One Eyed Jacks *<br \/>\n06-09 Atlanta, GA &#8211; Vinyl *<br \/>\n06-10 Cary, NC &#8211; Koka Booth Amphitheater $<br \/>\n06-11 Manchester, TN &#8211; Bonnaroo Music Festival<br \/>\n06-13 Washington, DC &#8211; 9:30 Club *<br \/>\n06-15 Philadelphia, PA &#8211; Union Transfer *<br \/>\n06-18 Kansas City, MO &#8211; Uptown Theatre ^<br \/>\n06-19 Pemberton, British Columbia &#8211; Pemberton Music Festival<br \/>\n07-19 Chicago, IL &#8211; Pitchfork Music Festival<br \/>\n07-24 Oro Medonte, Ontario &#8211; WayHome Festival<br \/>\n07-25 Newport, RI &#8211; Newport Folk Fest<br \/>\n08-12 Oslo, Norway &#8211; Oya Festival<br \/>\n08-13 Gothenburg, Sweden &#8211; Way Out West Festival<br \/>\n08-22 Biddinghuizen, Netherlands &#8211; Lowlands Festival<\/p>\n<p>@ with Teeth &amp; Tongue<br \/>\n$ with Sallie Ford<br \/>\n* with Chastity Belt and Darren Hanlon<br \/>\n# with Spoon<br \/>\n! with The Decemberists<br \/>\n^ with Belle &amp; Sebastian<br \/>\n$ with Alabama Shakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year we fell hopelessly in love with the music of Courtney Barnett.\u00a0 Her song Avant Gardener was easily one of the Best Songs of 2014. Barnett recently announced the release of a new album entitled, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, to be released on March 23rd.\u00a0 Never to sugar-coat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23479"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26786,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23479\/revisions\/26786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}