Tell Me How You Really Feel

Pitchfork 7.4/10 Courtney Barnett’s second album is smaller, more introverted than her debut. It’s tentative but with a purpose, songs about what it means to not have—or need—the right words for everything.

A.V. Club F Courtney Barnett’s debut full-length, 2015’s Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit, established the Australian indie-rocker as a potent musical force. With its tumbling guitars, ragged vocals, and grunge-punk tones—all of which coalesced on the scorching, sassy “Pedestrian At Best”—the album exceeded the…

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 On album two, Courtney Barnett offers no easy answers, but reassurance and beauty aplenty

Rolling Stone 4/5 Indie-rock singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett mixes penetrating observation, wry humor and deep empathy on a modest masterpiece of an LP

DIY 4/5 Lyrically the most direct and honest Courtney has been to date.

The Independent 4/5 Courtney Barnett uses her garage rock to explore anxiety and depression, Slow Club’s Charles Watson heads to Spacebomb Studios for his first solo record, while Parquet Courts release their best album yet 

The Skinny 4/5 There's no sign of a sophomore slump on Courtney Barnett's new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel.

Under The Radar 8.5/10 "I'm not your mother! I'm not your bitch!" drools Courtney Barnett on the opening to the sixth track of Tell Me How You Really Feel.

Clash 8/10 The shambling jangle (shangle?) of 2015’s ‘Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit’ evoked the warmer end of the Britpop

The Observer 3/5 Melbourne’s contemplative indie rock star addresses the trials of squaring love with life on the road on her direct and downbeat second album

Loud and Quiet 8/10 Australian songwriter Courtney Barnett returns with a second album 'Tell Me How You Really Feel' that's more pointed, political and purposeful.

Slant 4.5/5 Barnett’s impossibly effortless tunesmithing remains a preternatural force on Tell Me How You Really Feel.

Pop Matters 7/10 Courtney Barnett's new album Tell Me How You Really Feel closes with a calm meditation on friendship and togetherness.

The Guardian 4/5 Barnett’s second album is angrier, gathering her arrows to skewer the world’s problems like a loud battle cry

Spectrum Culture 75% Tell Me How You Really Feel is an album that doesn’t pander.