Courtney Barnett: ‘It’s easy to feel hopeless and lost in this weird world’

The Australian singer-songwriter on collaborating with Kurt Vile on a new album, her mixed feelings about Instagram and why her love life is integral to her work

Courtney Barnett is an Australian singer-songwriter based in Melbourne. She is known for her critically acclaimed releases The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas (2013) and debut album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit (2015). Over in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Kurt Vile is the former lead guitarist of the War on Drugs; he has released six solo albums including Smoke Ring for My Halo (2011). Together they have collaborated on the album Lotta Sea Lice, out now on Matador/Marathon Artists/Milk!.

How did you and Kurt meet?
We kept bumping into each other on tours and festivals, and we became friends over music and movies and TV and just making stupid jokes – we both have a similar sense of humour.

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