The time is nigh for yet another exceptional installment of our Jack White-produced Blue Series of singles. Third Man is privileged to work with Melbourne, Australia’s very own Courtney Barnett, a sharp singer-songwriter-guitarist who has quickly made her mark on garage pop fans worldwide with her witty, self-deprecating, and authentic observations turned into raw, stream-of-consciousness lyrics and blunt melodies. The wry-and-dry songstress stopped by Third Man Studios in Nashville over a long weekend this summer to record a couple tracks and damn did she ever deliver. The A-side “Boxing Day Blues Revisited” is the slinky and bittersweet epilogue to “Boxing Day Blues," the somber closer from her album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. It’s a strangely catching, plaintive reflection on the loneliness that blossoms when a person you care about treats you like literal garbage. The track is jaunty yet aloof, with CB’s trademark conversational lyricism in perfect contrast to the B-side, a beautifully dark reboot of the Roland S. Howard-penned “Shivers” back from his days in The Boys Next Door. Barnett's unfastened delivery of an ironic tale of teenage love and mortality brings a new level of feeling to the song, making it a welcome addition to that Sounds of Late Fall mix you’ve been working on.
Keep your eyes open and ears peeled for this one ‘cause you ain’t gonna wanna miss it. It’ll be in the Third Man Store and records stores everywhere on October 16th, 2015, and now you can pre-order the 7” HERE and check out Shivers HERE:
Hey!!! Courtney is playing live on Austin City Limits this week!
Why has Nick Cave not ventured into the blue seriesi wonder?? More to the point I think he could make quite the wicked Green Series candidate if TMR would pitch the idea that the release came with a laser cut fold out Borroughs Dream Machine with tealight strobe…
I keep thinking that courtneys unspoken message here is LOOK LEFT … i like it and i like that Rowland Howard is the source of strength on this release
Awww…Vinylmoss… I hope they do a whole pop up shoppe for you there and share the TMR Love with all the aussie fans who are ever vigilant and truly sainted in their patience for a tri release such as this…
Great! I even bought the new album after listening to this! Good luck in the big leagues baby! Rock it
The haunting vocal on this track gave me the “Shivers”, it is very different from her other recording….I immediately fell in love wit his this song, as it reminds me of Nico’s vocals on The Velvet Underground record….Femme Fatale is one of my most favorite songs….listen to that track and you will see what I mean….after listening to CB a few times, I bought tix to see her open for Blur at MSG on October 23….it will be my birthday eve and I am totally over the moon that I will see her live….if any of you guys live in NYC, you should consider seeing her in a couple more weeks….
Surely all the tri’s should be sent to her hometown fans. Been there from the start. Love me!
You make me so happy ! I prordered it !
I love this artist, I have almost all their LP and 7" and I need this one. Hope to have one day a tri-color of this one(even if it is hard to get one in France).
Yay! Courtney makes me laugh and cry. Love her music!
I like that cover photo… Odd coincidence that i put cop and go single on the platter at 33rpm the other day and thought it sounded like courtney barnett.. Try it out and see what i mean… Glad to see a new blue series TMR