You're listening to Song Exploder, where musicians take apart their songs,

and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.

I'm Rishi Kei Heirwe.

Earlier this year, in May 2018,

Courtney Barnett released her second album, Tell Me How You Really Feel.

And last fall, she and Kurt Weill made an album together.

So I thought this would be a good

time to go back and listen to an episode she did in January 2016 about DePreston. My favorite

song of hers from her first album. Here it is. Courtney Barnett released her debut album in

March 2015. By the end of the year, she had been nominated for a Grammy for Best New

Artist, Spin named her the songwriter of the year, and she had won four ARIA Music Awards in her

native Australia. In this episode, Courtney Barnett breaks down her song to Preston, which began with a

visit to an open house on a house hunting trip she took in the town of Preston. Thanks to Sonos for letting me record this interview at the Sonos studio in Los Angeles.

And it's going pretty cheap, you say.

Well, it's a deceased estate.

Aren't the press middle ceiling's great?

Yeah. Aren't the press metal ceiling's great? My name is Courtney Barnett.

I'm a songwriter from Melbourne in Australia.

Preston is the suburbs of Melbourne,

trees and bigger backyards.

So I went and looked at this house, I was house hunting,

and in the car ride home, the whole idea kind of came to me in that moment.

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