There’s a lot of hype around the Courtney Barnett show on Saturday, January 22nd at The Palace Theatre so make sure to come out and join in on the fun!
The sun rises and the sun sets. Mow the lawn, and it’ll grow back; cut your fingernails and they’ll grow back too. Weatherboards age; replace them when they rot and admire the way the old ones and the new ones look together. Overcast skies always become blue again, eventually. Things Take Time, Take Time. Living among uncertainty can make you forget that certainty is everywhere, all around us.
Courtney Barnett’s first two albums told stories of the tiny splinters that pull on the very fabric of the world: the way panic attacks and unmoored comments and unsightly, unseemly vistas can make knots and tears that are impossible not to fixate on. Her third album steps back, takes a breath, takes a beat, asks you not to fixate on the little things. It’s quieter and smaller than you might expect from Courtney. If you don’t like it — although you probably will — it’s no big deal; just give it another go tomorrow. Things Take Time, Take Time.
At the heart of Things Take Time, Take Time, is a love song — one of Courtney’s first. “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight” is effervescently, unabashedly, cheekily love-drunk, soaring and remarkably high-stakes in comparison to the rest of the record: “If loving you’s a crime, then gimme those front page headlines,” Courtney sings, aware of the cliche and crushing too hard to care. “I think my stance in the past was like, ‘There’s so many love songs and they don’t mean anything,’ but there’s something really special about zooming in on a moment and capturing it,” she says. “‘If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight’ comes from the state of where my head was at — trying to communicate honestly instead of keeping [my feelings] guarded.” It’s not verbose or heady; it’s a profound, joyful, totally joyous song, one about being in love with someone else and in love with the feeling of being in love. It takes life one minute at a time, and, like all of Things Take Time, Take Time presents a value to keep close to your heart: say less, but say exactly what you feel.
The amazing Julia Jacklin is going to be getting things started off right for this show so get there early! The second full-length album from Australian singer/songwriter Julia Jacklin, Crushing embodies every possible meaning of its title word. It’s an album formed from sheer intensity of feeling, an in-the-moment narrative of heartbreak and infatuation. And with her storytelling centered on bodies and crossed boundaries and smothering closeness, Crushing reveals how our physical experience of the world shapes and sometimes distorts our inner lives.
Tickets are still available but are surely moving fast and click HERE to snag them before they are gone!
