Following songs about canned tomatoes and pickles from a jar and an EP titled How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose, Courtney Barnett's latest release features a homespun/life hack track "How to Boil An Egg".Recorded and released for Split Singles Club—a series run by Milk! Records (a label Barnett co-founded with Jen Cloher) and Bedroom Suck, the track is a recent rework of one of the first songs Barnett wrote."I used to perform this song at all the open-mics when I was 21. It never got recorded, so for personal-posterity I updated it and made this version recently when I was bunkered up in the bush doin' some demos for my next album," Barnett says."In tradition of the Milk! Records compilation releases, like Pickles From The Jar or Three Packs A Day, I wanted to include a song of mine for Split Singles Club that was a tad left of album-centre. It's a songwriting experiment that doesn't really belong anywhere else."Barnett is currently working on a new album and has collaborated with Kurt Vile for an upcoming project.Until then, stream 'How To Boil An Egg', below.Purchase the 7" single by subscribing to Split Singles Club here.
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