“Rae Street” by Courtney Barnett

Courtney Barnett opened the door to her third album, Things Take Time, Take Time, with "Rae Street", its first single, released on 7 July 2021, months before the record itself arrived that November. She wrote it alone, and the video turns it into a one-woman street scene, following the residents of a suburban street who are all, every last one of them, played by Barnett.

The album was cut in Melbourne and Sydney between late 2020 and early 2021, with Stella Mozgawa producing and playing drums. The same day "Rae Street" dropped, Barnett slipped out a 13-second oddity, "All Eyes on the Pavement", as Oliver Paul, borrowing the name of the character at the center of her 2015 song "Elevator Operator". The record later took the 2022 AIR Award for Best Independent Rock Album or EP.

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