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- Record Label: Mom + Pop Music
- Release Date: May 18, 2018
- Summary: The second full-length release for the Australian singer-songwriter was produced with Burke Reid and Dan Luscombe.
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- Record Label: Mom + Pop Music
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 26 out of 28
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Mixed: 2 out of 28
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Negative: 0 out of 28
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May 21, 2018Tell Me How You Really Feel peaks midway, on “Nameless, Faceless”. The album’s lead single, with its descending guitar notes and a Margaret Atwood reference, finds Barnett employing old tools to tackle a newsworthy social ill. It’s breathless and gutting, a short and sweet examination of sex and violence. It draws blood, but so does the rest of the album.
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May 7, 2018It's full of incessantly catchy guitar riffs; a keen, driving rhythm section; and the unparalleled witty lyrics with which Barnett made her name. But it also bursts with more contradictions and a wider variety of personal intimacies than ever before. [Mar - May 2018, p.50]
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May 16, 2018While the songs here lack the scuzzy charm of her debut, Tell Me How You Really Feel is a weightier, more direct record.
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Q MagazineMay 8, 2018A much stronger set of songs. Her debut album's primary coloured backdrop having been swapped out for a richer, more nuanced palette. [Jul 2018, p.119]
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May 16, 2018Nearly every song on the new Courtney Barnett album has something to recommend it--a familiar melody that takes distinctive turns, a lyric that grows deeper with each listening, strong backup from a band led by Barnett’s rough-hewn guitar riffs.
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May 22, 2018The performances are muscular and attention-grabbing, and the melodies built around her distress take new and zestful contours.
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May 17, 2018Tell Me How You Really Feel is a disappointing and muted record that never quite lives up to its potential.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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May 18, 2018
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May 19, 2018There is some kickass guitar work on this album. It rocks harder than the first record and, for my ears, that is CB's strength. Very good.
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