This week, Barnett topped America's Billboard alternative weekly album list in 4 categories with her debut album – “Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit”. She was also awarded the 2015 Grulke Prize winner for developing non-US act at SXSW last month.
“This year has definitely been a bit of an explosion,” she tells Tom. “We sat down in a café yesterday and my face was on the magazine cover. It’s always a bit weird. All the boys make fun of me”.
Barnett talks about how she began writing songs from an early age; "I started playing guitar when I was 10 and you just naturally start making things up. My older brother and his friends played guitar and it just looked like fun".
On the show, Barnett performs a solo rendition of Elevator Operator and Depreston off the new album. Have a listen on the podcast below.
