Heft in simplicity is how I’d describe Courtney Barnett’s fourth studio album, Creature of Habit. It’s weighty in its emotion, purity, and honesty, which qualities are given breathing space amidst (often) lean instrumentation and straightforward song structure.
Spotify is an interesting barometer of an artist’s career. For Sam Beam–Iron & Wine–the song with the most streams on Spotify is Flightless Bird, American Mouth, with many hundreds of millions of streams.
Pearl Jam brought their Dark Matter Tour to Auckland’s Go Media (Mt Smart) Stadium and we brought superfan Luke Grbin, guitarist and songwriter for Bird Machine, in from Hamilton to witness the first of two shows. We also sent award-winning 13th Floor photographer Brenna Jo Gotje for good measure.
