Description
Wry lyricism and witty couplets, all delivered in Courtney Barnett’s droll style, are present and correct on Things Take Time, Take Time – although the sonic palette is more adventurous on this cracker of a third album. Since her 2015 debut Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, Barnett has displayed a gift for picking up the buzz and whirr of everyday life.
That ability to record what’s going on inside and out has unsurprisingly been tested to its fullest extent in the last year. Things Take Time, Take Time, written alone in Melbourne, showcases a new kind of sitting and thinking (or just sitting). Windowsills frame Rae Street, a deceptively drowsy snapshot of a suddenly shrunken world.
For a record about captive states — isolation, anxiety, romantic hope — Things lake Time, Take Time knows how to move.
