Courtney Barnett The Double Ep: A Sea Of Split Peas (Gatefold LP Jacket, Digital Download Card) (2 Lp's)

Courtney Barnett The Double Ep: A Sea Of Split Peas (Gatefold LP Jacket, Digital Download Card) (2 Lp's)The first album from Australian singer songwriter Courtney Barnett isn't a traditional full length. Sea of Split Peas is in fact two EPs tied together to create a full body of work, and it's a testament to her talented songwriting that the track list flows almost seamlessly from her breakthrough 2013 EP How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose into her 2012 release, I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris. Barnett's greatest asset is her down to earth lyrical

Smokey Robinson

While the band was never really folk

with 2 singles (Too Good At Goodbyes and Stay With Me) being one of only 100 tracks to ever achieve over 1bn total streams on Spotify

"Mummy Dust" is the set's headbanger (though the AC/DC references in "Absolution" are a close second) that openly worships Mercyful Fate

many of the elements that made their debut

And they constitute a near-fatal dead spot on the record -- songs three through six

Gregory Alan Isakov has been compared to his influences including Bruce Springsteen

something made evident on the first track "Five Years

Confusion and anxiety intrude into daily life and cause you to lose your compass

John Phillips and Michelle Phillips

According to the artist

Closer "Still That Way" is a ragged and raucous country song that could have been done by the Mekons