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From the album:
Lotta Sea Lice
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1.
Over Everything
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2.
Let It Go
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3.
Fear Is Like a Forest
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4.
Outta the Woodwork
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5.
Continental Breakfast
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6.
On Script
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7.
Blue Cheese
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8.
Peepin' Tom
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9.
Untogether
1. Over Everything
2. Let It Go
3. Fear Is Like a Forest
4. Outta the Woodwork
5. Continental Breakfast
6. On Script
7. Blue Cheese
8. Peepin' Tom
9. Untogether
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Best New songCourtney Barnett & Kurt Vile — Over Everything
Posted by LetsLoop on August 30, 2017, 5:36 pm Over Everything is our first taste of @Courtney Barnett and @Kurt Vile's upcoming collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, which is out October 13th on Matador Records. It is accompanied by a video directed by Danny Cohen, who has previously worked with @King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, @Kirin J Callinan, @Mac DeMarco and more.The duo have also announced a series of North American tour dates, kicking off in San Diego in October. Tickets are likely to go fast, so do yourself a favour and head over to their website to grab some before they all disappear: courtneybarnettandkurtvile.com/live
Lotta Sea Lice is Courtney's first new album since her stunning 2015 debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, and Kurt's first since 2015's B'lieve I'm Goin Down....
If you're wondering how the duo got together, check out this interview with the pair below:
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Courtney Barnett: I'm a huge Kurt Vile fan, have been since i walked into Thornbury Records one morning and blindly bought Smoke Ring For My Halo. That album was one of my first purchases on vinyl. I was getting over a big break-up, un-employed and drifting. I would just lie on my bed and listen to Peeping Tomboy on repeat. One of the most beautiful and luscious albums i ever heard. Me and Jen fell in love to that album.
Kurt Vile: While the violators were touring Australia during the Wakin On a Pretty Daze era i was hearing Courtney's name a lot. We added an extra show in Melbourne and the CB4 (Courtney's band) were added to open the show.
Courtney Barnett: I scored a support slot opening for Kurt at the Abbotsford Convent. We met briefly after the show but i was a bit nervous and didn't wanna bother him, just grateful for the gig.
Kurt Vile: After the show Courtney gave me her double vinyl EP. The first song was Out of the Woodwork. I love how sort of slow and swaying it is, pretty but dark with disorienting lyrics. I love all her music but the song that really hit me on her next album was Depreston. I'm a sucker for that kinda song: instant classic. So pretty and sincere.
Courtney Barnett: We started bumping into each other on the festival circuit all around the world and we became friends. He hit me up when he was coming to Melbourne again. He said he had a song that he thought we could work on together. We started sending demo's back & forth.
Kurt Vile: I started writing a tune that i hoped she'd do with me one day. I was doing promo for B'lieve I'm Going Down and being photographed in Philly with my acoustic and literally writing a song i had in mind for her (over everything) with the idea of alternating lines and everything. She agreed (to collaborate) and wrote a song too (let it go). That was that.
Courtney Barnett: I think our plan was loosely to record two songs. There was never any discussion of a finished product, maybe a 7" if it was any good. I was in such a song-writing rut at the time, i was in a real panic about having no songs and being a fake songwriter. I nearly pulled the plug a bunch of times and ended up scouring our email correspondence for lyrical ideas. "What time do you usually wake up? Depends on what time i go to sleep".
Kurt Vile: Let It Go is another example of the pretty but sort of sad song style i love by her. It started out as maybe we'll do a split 7" but then i figured let's make it a 12" so it doesn't get lost in the world, shoot for 5 songs. I was country-music-dorking-out and obsessed with roots music at the time so i convinced everyone that we should do a cover of Blueberry Hill. We had the two originals and the Blueberry Hill cover then Courtney suggested we cover each other so the plan was to work on those songs on our own.
Courtney Barnett: It was just so fun the panic drifted away. Kurt's so encouraging and silly so all this confidence that i had lost was re-ignited, i think i knew deep down it would kick-start my brain. We were originally gonna do a kinda acoustic folk duo thing, then Kurt was like "is it ok if my friends Mick and Jim come jam with us?" So next minute we're jammin with Rob (Kurt's bass-man) and two members of the @Dirty Three and we've started gathering a pile of songs.
Kurt Vile: The band was me, Courtney, my bass player Rob Laakso and I invited Mick Turner and Jim White, two new friends from touring. it was amazing playing with Mick and Jim of course! Then @The Violators left for more shows.
Courtney Barnett: Jump forward a year, Kurt's back in Melbourne so we book another 3 days and record some more half-cooked ideas (this time with Stella Mozgawa from @Warpaint) and eventually we've got about 10 songs stewing, some covers, some originals. Very live and spontaneous but mostly just a bundle of fun.
Kurt Vile: We ran into each other on the road in various continents and talked about the recordings. I guess it wasn't till i had another tour booked for the following summer in Australia that we thought we should record as much as we can, no major goal to make it a full length but it came together that way because the vibe was so strong. Callum (Barter) the engineer was amazing and crucial to the laid back atmosphere as well. I love working with Courtney, the collaboration was laid back with less pressure. there are some great guests too. Mick and Jim and Rob of course but also Stella Mozgawa and Mick Harvey. Backing vocals from Jade Imagine and Jess Ribeiro, and Dave and Bones from Courtney's band.
Courtney Barnett: Now we finished the album, we dreamt up an amazing band which we've called the sea lice (inspired by a Stella Mozgawa beach-side-story) and me n Kurt will be standing there out front with our guitars singing songs together. Songs from this album we did, a handful of our own songs from previous albums, maybe some old folk songs n what not. Harmonies and guitarmonies galore. Very collaborative.
Kurt Vile: It'll be a cookin band and an interncontinental country duo for the ages (minus the country, haha).
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Over Everything lyrics:
When I'm all alone on my own by my lonesome
And there ain?t a single?nother soul around
I wanna dig into my guitar bend a blues riff that hangs
Over everything
When I'm by myself and it?s daytime cuz down-under
Or wherever it is I live when it's evening
You know I speed-read the morning news and come up with my own little song also
...too
When I step outside to a beautiful morning
Where the trees are all waggin?, my hair-flag waving
The scenery ragin?, my life/love cascading, and the smog hangs
Over everything
When I'm outside in a real good mood
You could almost forget bout all the other things
Like a big old ominous cloud in my periphery
Don?t wanna talk about it
Simultaneous I shout it
When I was young I liked to hear music blarin'
And I wasnt carin to neuter my jams with earplugs
But these days I inhabitate a high-pitched ring over things
So these days I plug em up
When I'm strugglin with my songs I do the same thing too
And then I crunch em up in headphones, cause why wouldnt you?
You could say I hear you on several levels at high decibels
Over everything
When I'm all alone on my own by myself
And there and another single one around I wanna dig into my guitar, bend a blues riff that hangs...
Over everything
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