Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit.

Personnel: Courtney Barnett (vocals, guitar); Dan Luscombe (vocals, guitar); Dave Mudie (vocals, drums, percussion); Bones Sloane (vocals).Audio Mixers: Dan Luscombe; Burke Reid.Recording information: Head Gap Studio, Preston, VIC, AUS.Photographer: Tajette O'Halloran.Arrangers: Dan Luscombe; Dave Mudie; Courtney Barnett; Bones Sloane.A convincing argument that rock & roll doesn't need reinvention in order to revive itself, Courtney Barnett's full-length debut Sometimes I Sit and Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. falls into a long, storied rock tradition but never feels beholden to it. By almost any measure, Barnett is a traditionalist -- a singer/songwriter supported by a guitar-bass-drum trio, cranking out ballads and squalls of noise. Certainly, those flurries of six-string fury do recall a variety of indie rock from the '90s, an era when there was a surplus of guitar-friendly singer/songwriters, and if Sometimes I Sit does occasionally seem reminiscent of Liz Phair's landmark Ex