courtney barnett - different now - suicide squeeze

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Suicide Squeeze celebrates Chastity Belt with a cover by friend of the band and tourmate Courtney Barnett. For this release, Courtney recorded a song from the band's third album, 2017's I Used to Spend So Much Time Alone, in her signature style. On Courtney's take on "Different Now," she pulls the song from its Pacific Northwest haze, leaves it out to dry in the middle of the desert, and wrings something almost joyous from the original's ambiguity.

On the track Courtney Barnett offers: "This song is so special to me. I remember when the album came out and I listened to ‘different now’ over and over, I thought they were singing directly to me. It’s a perfect piece of songwriting, I showed it to Kurt Vile and he would always sing it to me on tour. I love Chastity Belt. I’m pretty sure we met in 2014 at a record store in Seattle, then we toured together in 2015 and we’ve been friends ever since.

 I originally played it as a little folk acoustic version, then I asked Stella [Mozgawa] to program some drums and it turned into something a lot more fun. we tracked straight to the Tascam 388 and it was a real joy to make."