Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener"

Okay, we have Lorde, but you have to admire our mates from the West Island - or Australia if you have no idea what I'm talking about. Those Aussie cousins of ours are ruling the underground at the moment. One artist that is really becoming an obsession of mine is Courtney Barnett. She sings in an Aussie drawl, with a Bob Dylan influence that is like another band, Foxygen, who are Dylan/Stones prodigies. Pure coincidence maybe, but my last two musical obsessions seem to be Dylanesque. Courtney Barnett's double EP 'A Sea of Split Peas', which actually combines her first two EP's, is so good that I've been breaking my "Don't thrash the hell out of any album" rule. Pure Heroine!