COURTNEY BARNETT Launches Her 4th Album ‘CREATURE OF HABIT’

27 March 2026

Gratifying Australian songstress/guitarist COURTNEY BARNETT
has her brand new LP, her 4th, titled CREATURE OF HABIT, out.

Press info: “Creature of Habit is a bold, emotionally resonant record that explores the central question: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life. Written in the wake of a relocation from Australia to Los Angeles and the closure of her long-running label Milk! Records, Barnett was grappling with changes that put the future of both her life and career in question. Rather than internalizing those feelings, she decided to bring all this swirling confusion directly into the recording process.”

UNCUT Magazine (British msuci monthly): It’s a document of Barnett’s unsticking, through plain doing. It’s also an instantly engaging record born out of its author’s collaborative curiosity, the deliberate avoidance of any pre-recording plan and a determination to embrace change in whatever form, while staring down the uncomfortable emotions that so often attend it.”

TUTV: Sonically it’s the Barnett we all know for years now, assembling lazy guitar-galvanizing grooves, lazy tunes and lazy reveries with lazy vocals rolling over it, that
initiate lazy foot-and-pelvis moves.

Listening to the Australian songstress feels like having an ear-massage.
Lyrially she continous her soul-searching, as many questions are still
unanwsered. CB charms and entertains, nothing more, nothing else.
That’s fine by me.

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COURTNEY BARNETT Back With Rowdy Rocker ‘STAY IN YOUR LANE’

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15 October 2025


Credit: Pooneh Ghana

Australian songstress COURTNEY BARNETT started her journey back in 2009.
With every album, 4 so far and several collaborations, she gained more fans and
critical praise and worked her way up to the top of indie’s crème de la crème.

Between 2012 and 2018 she was also the guitarist in her now ex-girlfriend’s band.

At first, her music was branded as ‘slacker rock’ but over the years she showed
her versatility as a singer-songwriter. Also, live she delivers. First time I saw her
was in Brussels in 2014 (11 years ago) playing in a club in front of only 50 people.
She already showed her charismatic and entertaining stage presence.


Brussels, 2014 – Photo by Turn Up The Volume.

Her latest LP Some Things Take Time, Take Time dates from 2021.

CB is back now with brand-new single, named STAY IN THE LANE
No news (so far) of a new longplayer.

It’s a rowdy rock piece.
Rougher than ever before.

“Gotta get this off my chest
This never would’ve happened
if I stayed in my lane,
stayed the same way.”

Watch the accompanying video clip, which made me think instantly of that classic movie ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ with a brilliant Jack Nicholson (one of my fav actors of all time).

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