If you've seen Courtney Barnett and her band in the past year, you know this one. It's a more vulnerable headspace for the wry lyricism that has become Barnett's trademark; her most direct contemporaries might be bands like Parquet Courts and Speedy Ortiz, their clever poetry itself recalling Pavement, but rarely have any of these groups been so cutting. "Depreston" is Barnet...(展开全部) If you've seen Courtney Barnett and her band in the past year, you know this one. It's a more vulnerable headspace for the wry lyricism that has become Barnett's trademark; her most direct contemporaries might be bands like Parquet Courts and Speedy Ortiz, their clever poetry itself recalling Pavement, but rarely have any of these groups been so cutting. "Depreston" is Barnett's somber tale of house-hunting in the suburbs of Melbourne, a sad neighborhood with few cafés and visible crime, heavy with an emptiness you can feel in this spacious, mid-tempo music. The song is rooted in a dilemma of all artists—that of finding a cheap place to live on the outskirts, of embracing domestic self-reliance and just brewing your own coffee—but it winds its way into a poignant ballad of memory, death and growing. It's telling that Barnett has a background in photography; her songs capture fleeting, quotidian details that are full of truth. It is a photograph that sets the existential tone of "Depreston", as Barnett pokes around this cheap old house with a realtor, and learns that its last resident had died: "Then I see the handrail in the shower," Barnett sings, wistfully and a bit detached, "A collection of those canisters for coffee, tea and flour/ And a photo of a young man in a van in Vietnam." Her mind races, and as Barnett negotiates her own impending relationship to adulthood, she reminds us of what comes after it with empathy and care. Anyone who's sorted through a grandparent's dusty belongings before the apartment is sold off knows the feeling—that of opening an old book to find a startling relic that wakes you up, artifacts that loom with meaning, the ephemera of daily life that echoes on and on.
First, I love this album very much!Especially Depreston and An Illustration of loneliness,Pedestrian At Best. If you've seen Courtney Barnett and her band in the past year, you know this one. It's a more vulnerable headspace for the wry lyricism that has b...
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0 有用 NowhereSun 2018-10-07 13:12:10
4.5 现实人买丢空物业的思路,偶然怜悯他人,最终却离不开自我关怀
0 有用 Bobby 2019-05-27 23:17:54
专辑中叙事最完整的一首,她以小现大的不仅是词作,还有声音表现力。
0 有用 MEMPOET 2022-05-30 21:31:44
A-
0 有用 mibo lost 2019-07-25 10:06:09
塑料粉丝教主掏出了手机
0 有用 Iris_tectorum 2021-11-30 22:28:22
我
0 有用 chiron 2019-12-29 22:14:19
may ur heart stay vulnerable and breakable.
0 有用 m_fag 2021-11-30 23:27:00
一张里程碑式专辑上刻得最美的那一行诗
0 有用 Taecomme 2019-10-23 11:24:52
9.5
0 有用 吴人用其语为歌 2019-09-24 14:14:39
9