| Barnett, Courtney & Kurt Vile / Lotta Sea Lice |
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| Album: | Lotta Sea Lice | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Barnett, Courtney & Kurt Vile | Added: | Jul 2018 | |
| Label: | Matador Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2018-07-11 | Pull Date: | 2018-09-12 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 16 | Sep 9 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 19 | Aug 12 | Aug 5 | Jul 29 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | May 11, 2023: | down in the basement Peepin' Tom | 4. | Jan 19, 2023: | Down in the Basement Continental Breakfast | |
| 2. | Apr 20, 2023: | down in the basement Blue Cheese | 5. | Mar 18, 2022: | The Library (rebroadcast from Aug 1, 2018) Over Everything | |
| 3. | Mar 23, 2023: | Down in the Basement Continental Breakfast | 6. | Jan 30, 2022: | Down in The Basement (rebroadcast from Jan 27, 2022) Peepin' Tom |
| Album Review |
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| Jabbering Encore Reviewed 2018-07-04 | ||
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Courtney Barnett is a hilariously deadpan lyricist who happens to be really, really good at guitar. Kurt Vile is a woozy, psychedelic guitar wizard with a funny, zen-like outlook on life and how to live it. On their first (but hopefully not last) collaboration, these two shaggy guitar heroes bleed their styles together into a pretty, laid-back haze. It sounds like two old friends who can finish each other’s jokes, kicking back and jamming in the studio. This isn’t cutting-edge stuff—in fact, it’s the sonic equivalent of spending a day on the couch—but fans of either Barnett’s or Vile’s work, or slacker rock in general, will enjoy this one. FCCs: None Favorites: 1, 3, 5, 6, 9 1) “Over Everything” (6:20)* – Steady drumbeat keeps the song chugging along while two warm electric guitars dance around each other. The song kind of plods along until about 3:45, when something that I guess you could call an extended guitar solo begins. Lyrics are about dealing with negative thoughts and hearing loss, with Barnett and Vile trading verses. 2) “Let It Go” (4:34) – Twinkling guitar riff with a kind of marching drum beat. Song is quiet, little more than acoustic, drifting along at a leisurely pace, while Barnett and Vile sing the titular phrase. 3) “Fear Is Like a Forest” (4:48)* – Electric guitar sounds a little more aggressive here, almost like an early Neil Young cut with Crazy Horse. Sure enough, there’s a long guitar break after 2:30, and another one as the song comes to an end. 4) “Outta the Woodwork” (6:21) – Vile’s cover of one of Barnett’s songs. A lazy, twangy take that sounds like a hybrid between slacker rock and country. Goes on about a minute longer than it should. 5) “Continental Breakfast” (4:53)* – (Quiet for the first seven or so seconds.) A charming and simple tune. Chiming, fingerpicked acoustic guitar with warm splashes of electric guitar. 6) “On Script” (4:00)* – Sounds like there’s two riffs at once: An overdriven grunge-lite riff and a cleaner fingerpicked patter that dances around it. A smoldering, introspective number that, as the shortest song on the album, doesn’t overstay its welcome, thankfully. 7) “Blue Cheese” (4:38) – A sweet and silly country number filled with all kinds of lyrical nonsense: “Chinese rock and roll,” Game Genies, a girl named Tina who sells reefer(ina), and, of course, blue cheese. (For the record, blue cheese is disgusting, and “blue cheese up your woo hoo” sounds like a form of corporal punishment.) 8) “Peepin’ Tom” (4:15) – Barnett’s cover of one of Vile’s songs. Solo performance—just Barnett’s plaintive singing over an acoustic guitar. A little too spare for my tastes. 9) “Untogether” (4:51)* – Cover of Belly’s 1993 jangle pop tune. It’s a pleasant, faintly psychedelic recording with intertwined acoustic and electric guitar. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Over Everything | 5. | Continental Breakfast | |||
| 2. | Let It Go | 6. | On Script | |||
| 3. | Fear Is Like A Forest | 7. | Blue Cheese | |||
| 4. | Outta The Woodwork | 8. | Peepin' Tom | |||
| 9. | Untogether | |||||