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Everybody Here Hates You by Courtney Barnett from her EP - Director: Danny Cohen

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Dave Mudie, Bones Sloane, and Courtney Barnett (photo by Pooneh Ghana, via Courtney’s Instagram)

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Nameless, Faceless by Courtney Barnett from the album Tell Me How You Really Feel - Music video directed and animated by Lucy Dyson

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Need A Little Time by Courtney Barnett from the album Tell Me How You Really Feel - Director: Danny Cohen

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Photos courtesy of Silvia Saponaro | www.saponarophotography.com @silvialovesmusic

(Courtney Barnett plays Celebrate Brooklyn at the Prospect Park Bandshell on 7/25.)

Courtney Barnett – Music Hall of Williamsburg – May 19, 2018

Usually if someone were to say, “So-and-so is the coolest,” I’d reply that that, well, that was a totally subjective statement. But hearing “Courtney Barnett is the coolest” felt like an incontrovertible fact after watching her set on Saturday night at Music Hall of Williamsburg. With her second full-length album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, out for public consumption for barely 24 hours, Barnett and her band ran straight through the new record. While this meant opening a sold-out show in a room much too small to contain a ready-to-rock adoring audience with a slow and moody song called “Hopefulessness,” it was no matter. The crowd hung on every word, gesture and riff from the opening notes, the brand-new release with its only–Courtney Barnett lyrics about how the “darkness depends on where you’re standing” and eating a bowl of alphabet soup and spitting out better words than you. Her updated grunge had just the right balance of nostalgia and newness to satisfy everyone in the room.

As all-in as everyone was with the new stuff for what was effectively a one-off album-release gig, the mood in the room palpably shifted as the final track, the poignant “Sunday Roast,” came to a close and the second half of the show kicked into gear. Running through a string of oh-I-love-this-song! hits, sandwiched by “Avant Gardener” and “History Eraser” the band—the usual trio expanded into a four-piece with bassist Bones Sloane and drummer Dave Mudie joined by Katie Harkin on keys and second guitar—fed off the crowd’s bounding energy and vice versa. You could practically hear the collective audience mutter, “Well, I’ve been seeing Courtney Barnett since …” when she still had them rapt with every word of “Depreston,” a song she played in a something-new-I’m-working-on form in the same not-quite-as-full room not too many years ago.

Whether unfurling her characteristic poetic couplets or thrashing her guitar and leading her band through a blast of damn-that’s-good rock, Barnett was, undeniably, the coolest person in the room. When the set came to a close, the crowd response was somewhere between “One more song!” and “Courtney, I’ll follow you anywhere!” She met everyone halfway, playing three songs, including the back-catalog “Anonymous Club” and two pleasers off her 2015 release, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit. The show ended with “Nobody Really Cares if You Don’t Go to the Party,” Barnett singing, “Yes, I like hearing your stories/ But I’ve heard them all before,” while the audience danced and sang along, perfectly content to hear any stories Barnett had to tell one more time. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

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Courtney Barnett - Elevator Operator  (Part 1)