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Happy Tuesday: We Just Scored A New Single From Courtney Barnett

"I used to perform this song at all the open-mics when I was 21."

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It's been a little while since we've heard new material from Courtney Barnett but today's the day: Barnett has released the single she recorded for Milk! Records and Bedroom Suck's recent vinyl collaboration.

The track is called How To Boil An Egg and is a recent rework of one of the first songs she ever wrote, with Barnett playing every instrument on the song herself.

"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."

It's got a decidedly country twinge to it — check it out here.