Small Talk - Courtney Barnett
Just when we thought we got all we can from Courtney Barnett in 2018, a previously unreleased track, "Small Talk," is out from her Tell Me How You Really Feel sessions, taking a step back into her narrative song writing previously seen in Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit . Tell Me How You Really Feel was a very introspective and explicative collection of Barnett's innermost feelings of marginalization, depression, relationships and exhaustion, that saw her narrative-based song writing turn into a more direct approach to her themes. While "Small Talk" is an impressive song (reasons we'll get to later) its narrative structure does not necessarily align with Tell Me How You Really Feel' s direct approach to her feelings. It is more akin to her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, Sometimes I Just Sit, although the instrumentals do show a resemblance, which is probably why it had been ...