Courtney Barnett (Photo: Gary Mather for Live4ever Media)
Courtney Barnett has premiered her inimitably titled new track How To Boil An Egg.
The stand-alone song is more post-Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit work from the Australian songwriter, and is her contribution to a collaboration between two of her home country’s leading independent labels, Milk! and Bedroom Suck. “I used to perform this song at all the open-mics when i was 21,” she’s said.
“It never got recorded, so for personal-posterity I updated it and made this version recently when I was bunkered up in the bush doing some demos for my next album.”
“In tradition of the Milk! Records compilation releases, like Pickles From The Jar or Three Packs A Day, I wanted to include a song of mine for Split Singles Club that was a tad left of album-centre. It’s a songwriting experiment that doesn’t really belong anywhere else.”