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COURTNEY BARNETT

MTV Unplugged: Live In Melbourne

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Though her studio output is damn near impeccable (this scribe doled her their ‘album of the year’ distinction in 2015 and 2018), Courtney Barnett is a concert crusher at heart. Her shows are characteristically monstrous, manic and magnetic; she tears into her guitar like it just insulted her mother, and puts so much soul into her voice that we’re convinced she’s got an iron throat.

Lo and behold, her MTV Unplugged session could not be more diametric. The CB3 are in tow, of course, albeit stripped to their basics and left to rely on the elements for amplification. Barnett herself weilds a bright, resonant acoustic

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