Tell Me How You Really Feel by Courtney Barnett is the new triple j feature album this week. In ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ Barnett has revealed an exhilarating and unexpected shift. From its title (A question? An order?) to the unsettling cover image – a blood-red tinted self-portrait in uncomfortably tight close up – Barnett sets a new tone. There’s a new-found directness with this record, a muscularity to the instrumentation, a tenderness in her voice and a boldness to the lyrics which speaks to Barnett entering a remarkable new phase of her musical evolution. She’s saying more, with less. Whereas once she examined the world through the prism of self-analysis, ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ shifts that focus to those she interacts with – the good ones, the bad ones, the loved ones. Those she knows intimately and those who are strangers.

Listen to/view this week's triple j playlist additions below:



triple j Playlist Additions: w/c May 21st

Feature album:

Courtney Barnett – Tell Me How You Really Feel

[Milk! Records/Remote Control]

Adds:

Anderson .Paak – Bubblin’

[ADA/Warner]

BABYMETAL – Distortion

[BABYMETAL Records/Cooking Vinyl Australia]

Disclosure – Ultimatum (feat. Fatoumata Diawara)

[Universal]

EBHONI – Opps

[Independent]

G Flip – Killing My Time

[triplejunearthed.com]

IV League – Superstar

[triplejunearthed.com]

TOTTY – Uncomfortable

[Ratbag Records]

Ziggy Alberts – Love Me Now

[Independent]

Spots:

Flowermouth – Gown [triplejuenarthed.com]

Joji – Yeah Right [88Rising]

Laurel – Lovesick [Counter Records/Inertia]

Ric Wilson – Sinner (feat. Kweku Collins/Rane Raps/Nick Kosma) [Innovative Leisure/Inertia]

XMPLA – Better [Tinted Records]