![]() "So many of my songs are just letters to friends and lovers, people who are important in my life or people who make me angry," she says. "Trying to understand that level of communication and confrontation that I obviously struggle with in real life. ![]() It's also a primary reason she makes music to begin with, to make sense of her relationship with the world and others as much as the anxieties rattling 'round her mind. ![]() "I don't think that's a bad thing, it's just part of me and part of how I operate." "A lot of my music and albums are so personal – I can't seem to make music that's not," says the self-described over-thinker. The 35-year-old has always possessed an uncanny ability to pluck funny, frank, and profound observations from life's monotonous middles as much as its dizzying highs and crushing lows.įrom deadpanning about an ambulance ride down the high street, to the fluttering sensation of waiting for a reply text, or the numb dread after an argument, Barnett fleshes out wit and wisdom into poetry without pretension – scored by corrugated-iron garage rock bluster or gently rambling tunes. That raw depiction showed us the human side of an artist whose writing always seemed a little effortless from the outside.
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