Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile - Over everything

We all have been there, wondering if our long lost soul mate was born by mistake in the other side of the world and that's been the reason of not having meet yet. Courtney Barnett (from Australia) and Kurt Vile (from the United States), managed to meet each other and make the fantasy of a transcontinental partnership actually happen. Even if he is more of a psychedelic rocker and she's more a grunge satyrical commentator, there's undoubtedly something very common to their styles, they are misfits who are in discomfort with the social structures and channel their energies in clever music for uncool people (they are so uncool that they are actually very cool).

And their first song together, Over Everything, comes as a casual conversation between the two of them, exchanging notes on their songwriting styles with ocasional digressions to small comments of their feelings inhabiting an absurd world. Unlike most male-female collaborations, they totally avoid any romantic/sexual tension in their track, they are just happy (in their not so enthusiastic particular way to express it) to find somebody that is on the same mindset and with who they can feel at ease to make the use of headphones a vital topic for conversation, it's excitement that makes them start talking when the other hasn't even finished their phrase, as if they had the urgency to jump on the topic before they lose the idea.

The fact that their names are Kurt and Courtney, just like the most explosive couple in 90's music made this collaboration look more like it was supposed to happen. There's the same apathy as in old grunge, but here there's no rage but pure wit, they don't want to make the world burn for its faults, they are contempt watching from a distance the unavoidable collapse of weak structures.

This two individuals used to find satisfaction in improvising with their guitars when they were on their own, and now they have discovered that they could find that same satisfaction doing it together, no matter if they are doing different songs, sharing the same ideas allows them to combine them in to something unpolished and dissonant, but yet sincere and cohesive. They seal their friendship singing together the last verse, because they have just realized that finding a soul mate is overrated as they have just found something even better: a mind mate.