Indie rocker Courtney Barnett surprised fans on Friday with a full album chronicling her recent MTV Australia Unplugged performance.
“I wanted to have a mixture of old songs, new songs and covers, and tracks that we don’t perform all the time – it’s been interesting to see the songs through a different filter, and it brings out this other emotional side to the music and the lyrics,” Barnett said of the Melbourne performance. “Unplugged is so nostalgic for me. We had two Unplugged Records in our CD collection growing up and I know those records inside out because we listened to them every day.”
Guests on the eight-song performance include some of Barnett’s personal favorites, including Paul Kelly, Evelyn Ida Morris and Marlon Williams.
The performance closes with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne.”
Click here to listen to the full record via YouTube.
Watch Barnett cover “So Long, Marianne” below:

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