A second performance recorded when Courtney Barnett visited Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show a couple of weeks ago has been shared and can be viewed below.
A frenetic rendition of ‘Pedestrian At Best’ when out on the programme, but a more cultured acoustic performance of ‘Depreston’ was also captured backstage and is now up on YouTube.
Both tracks can be found on Barnett’s debut album ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’, of which our review reads:
“If this all sounds a bit open mike night at the Coffee Hut, there are also moments of real conquest, the hallucinogenic scratches and balletic tension of ‘Kim’s Caravan‘ being most prevalent amongst them, along with the recherché blues of ‘Small Poppies‘, both skeletal tales which transform her into a Melbournian Polly Harvey on a budget.”
“‘Sometimes I Sit..’ is one of those records which will have you grasping at thin air for comparisons, whilst itself sitting unpretentiously in the corner, a bag full of poems delivered conversationally, but still with enough melody and unassuming wit to disarm even the uncoolest amongst us.”