Courtney Barnett Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit LP (Black Vinyl)

Rolling Stone 50 Best Albums of 2015 - Rated 6/50!

Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit is the universally acclaimed debut full-length from Grammy®-nominated Aussie rocker Courtney Barnett. The album received praise from NPR, SPIN, Rolling Stone (4.5 stars), Pitchfork (Best New Music), and so on. In addition to receiving a Grammy® nod and 'Best New Music' tag from Pitchfork, Bob Boilen stated, "This will be, for sure, my favorite record of 2015."

The year's (2015) best debut came from a 27-year-old Australian singer-songwriter who marries the observational wit of Jerry Seinfeld, the word-ninja flow of Bob Dylan circa '65 and the guitar poetry of Stephen Malkmus. As its title implies, these are songs wrought from a specific type of everyday quarter-life malaise - one brilliant song is about the stuff that runs through your mind when you can't fall asleep, another is about a botched meet-cute at a swimming pool. But Barnett's ability to pack her songs about nothing with vivid imagery and insight, literary detail and political insight, is astonishing. 'Jen insists that we buy organic vegetables/And I must admit that I was a little skeptical at first/A little pesticide can't hurt,' she sings on the springy rocker 'Dead Fox,' which somehow morphs into a hilarious, catchy driving tune. Songs like 'Pedestrian At Best' and 'Debbie Downer' update the rich tradition of self-doubting Nineties alt-rock; other moments, like the heartbreaking 'Depreston,' have a wisdom - about aging, class anxiety, economics and relationships - that seems almost impossible for someone who's only beginning to find the depth of her artistic gifts. All signs suggest those gifts could be bottomless.