It’s not just Everett True who likes Courtney Barnett. Her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think and Sometimes I Just Sit (which earned five stars from Guardian Australia’s music reviewer on its release) entered the US Billboard album sales chart at 10 and is already on Guardian Music’s list of the best albums of 2015 (so far).
Now, ahead of three final dates of her homecoming tour in her native Melbourne, Barnett has put out a new cute-but-grisly video for the latest single from the album, the poppier Dead Fox.
Animated by Rory Kerr and Paul Ruttledge and clearly inspired by a children’s picture book aesthetic, the clip sees a menagerie of Aussie animals taking bloody revenge on the human race, from horror-show taxidermied ’roos to sharks and emus running over pedestrians.
Barnett’s people call it “a powerful argument against the destructive powers of big business, raging against the death and destruction caused by corporations, simply to ‘bring us the best price’ ”. But what do you make of it?
