Consumer Guide Album

Courtney Barnett: The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas [Mom + Pop/Milk!, 2013]
So redolent in their way, the EPs' titles, I've Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris and How to Carve a Carrot Into a Rose, suggest neither the irresistibility of her greatest shoegaze nor her ill-conceived tendency to strum when she can't think of anything charming to say ("Avant Gardener," "History Eraser") ★★