The darling of the indie scene returns bearing her second solo album
‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’, Courtney’s second solo album since her fantastic debut ‘Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit’, will be released on May 18. In the punky first single ‘Nameless, Faceless’ she sings about anonymous internet trolls… as a reaction to the internet plague fo recent years. There’s a Margaret Atwood quote woven into the refrain: "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them; women are afraid that men will kill them."
The album is the successor to ‘Lotta Sea Lice’, her collaboration with Kurt Vile, about which De Morgen wrote: "Courtney Barnett en Kurt Vile, de twee grootste slackers van de indierock, bundelen hun krachten. En wat er dan gebeurt, is even voorspelbaar als vertederend: slome songs met het hoofd in de nu eens donkere, dan weer donzige wolken."