Slowly but surely

Australian singer-songwriter measures out her life with killer tunes.

Victoria Segal

Courtney Barnett ★★★★ Things Take Time, Take Time MARATHON ARTISTS. CD/DL/LP THE VIDEO for Before You Gotta Go, a sweet, self-lacerating love song from Courtney Barnett’s third album, shows the singer roaming around with a tape machine, field-recording trees, a dog, the sea, her own sprouting head. Since her 2015 debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Barnett has displayed a gift for picking up the buzz and whirr of everyday life. Her slow-release songs aren’t so much ripped from the headlines as rolled from bedsheets or brushed from kitchen counters, her phrasing conversational, her guitar missing a buttonhole or two. That ability to record what’s going on inside and out has unsurprisingly been tested to its fullest extent in the last year. Things Take Time,…

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