Anyone who uses the video for “Kim’s Caravan” as their first exposure to might get the wrong idea of the Australian singer-songwriter. You won’t find her playing tennis or dressing up like a clown in her latest video. Instead, the normally lighthearted and whip smart musician takes an unflinching tour through lower class Australia.
“We either think that we’re invincible or that we are invisible/When realistically we’re somewhere in between/We all think that we’re nobody but everybody is somebody else’s somebody,” Barnett sings on “Kim’s Caravan,” her most serious moment of her excellent new album, “Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.”
In our review of the album, that Barnett has a “distinct knack for bringing out the magnificent in the mundane.”
In the video, Barnett takes a melancholy walk through old haunts — dusty streets, trailers in the middle of nowhere and old little neighborhoods.
The video’s director Bec Kingma said of his interpretation of the song:
In conceptualizing a film clip for the track I am keen to explore the adult attempt to return to that place of childish innocence. If you have ever returned to a childhood holiday haunt in the offseason, itap likely you’ve discovered the sad realisation that the place barely resembles your idyllic memories. As grown ups we all yearn for a time and place where our biggest concerns were the sand in our bathers and the mosquito’s eating us alive.
Hey anyone who gets depressed watching it, can easily put on any of Barnett’s other videos for her hilarious takes on every day life, like having an asthma attack while gardening.
Barnett — — returns to Denver to play an opening spot for on May 27.
