The best thing about being a fan of an artist is discovering that — outside of their studio albums and radio singles — there are a bunch of cool B-sides, rarities, and oddities.
Courtney Barnett is particularly good at keeping fans sated with such releases; her latest is ‘How To Boil An Egg’, which is part of the Split Singles Club collaboration between Milk! Records and Bedroom Suck. As she explains, it’s not the most serious of tunes.
“I used to perform this song at all the open mics when I was 21,” Barnett says of the song. “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. 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.”
Listen to the tune below.
