{"id":33658,"date":"2015-04-06T15:05:30","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=33658"},"modified":"2015-04-06T15:05:30","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T20:05:30","slug":"courtney-barnett-sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2015\/04\/06\/courtney-barnett-sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium alignright wp-image-33659\" src=\"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sometime-I-Sit-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sometime-I-Sit\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sometime-I-Sit.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sometime-I-Sit-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sometime-I-Sit-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett\u2019s <em>Sometimes I Sit<\/em> is her first full length following a string of EPs extending back to 2011, and thus benefits from both the freshness of a debut release and the more developed sound of an artist who has made their\u00a0rounds. The best way I can think to describe this album\u2019s style is roots rock soaked in grunge and left out to dry with deadpan vocals and a lackadaisical tone. It\u2019s very fun and I wholeheartedly recommend that you give it a listen.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of the tracks on this album remind me of the more energetic sounds of Angel Olsen\u2019s 2014 release Burn Your Fire for No Witness, especially songs like Pedestrian at Best (2), Aqua Profanda! (6), and Debbie Downer (9), which all pack a lighthearted punch. There are also slower, stumbling songs like Depreston (5) and Small Poppies (4), which is my favorite track on the album, though maybe not the most radio friendly at seven minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>While certainly nothing groundbreaking, <em>Sometimes I Sit<\/em> has enough universal allure that it doesn&#8217;t really need to be. And while I\u2019m not really sure if open chords ever truly went out of style, artists like Courtney Barnett are undeniably helping make them cool again.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nRecommended If You Like: Angel Olsen, Parquet Courts, Speedy Ortiz, Waxahatchee<br \/>\nRecommended Tracks: 2 (Pedestrian at Best), 9 (Debbie Downer), 4 (Small Poppies), 6 (Aqua Profonda!), 8 (Nobody Really Cares If You Don&#8217;t Go to the Party)<br \/>\nDo Not Play: 7 (Dead Fox)<br \/>\nWritten by John McCain on 04\/01\/2015 <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your new favorite late-Spring\/early-Summer jam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":33659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2644,2645,2884],"class_list":["post-33658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-rotation","tag-courtney-barnett","tag-john-mccain","tag-sometimes-i-sit-and-think-and-sometimes-i-just-sit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Sometime-I-Sit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}