Courtney Barnett Announces New Album ‘Creature Of Habit’ + New Single ‘Site Unseen’
Today, GRAMMY-nominated Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett announces her highly-anticipated fourth studio album, Creature of Habit, out March 27 on Fiction Records. The record features 10 tracks, including the brand new single and music video Site Unseen which features Waxahatchee.
Creature of Habit marks a decisive new chapter in Courtney Barnett’s musical evolution. It’s 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.
The perceptive lyricism and delivery of Site Unseen evokes those emotions that have drawn Courtney Barnett’s listeners in since the very beginning. “Letting go of everything that might have been/ and if we like it here, we’ll stay another year,” she sings, “let’s figure out the rest another day.” These sentiments testify to the messages of openness and acceptance of change that are woven through Creature of Habit. The track also holds particular personal significance to Barnett, because it features harmonies from one of her
favourite singers – Katie Crutchfield of Waxahatchee. It is also accompanied by a brillianty droll music video, which you can see below.
“I tried 3 separate times over 2 years to track this song, and each time it either wasn’t finished or didn’t sound right and each time we had to start again,” Barnett recalls. “I kept hearing this really high harmony in my head, so for the fourth and final version, I asked Katie if she’d be into singing it with me. I’m a big Waxahatchee fan. I really love Katie’s songwriting and her voice, so it was an honour to have her sing on
Site Unseen.”
Creature of Habit Tracklist
- Stay In Your Lane
- Wonder
- Site Unseen (featuring Waxahatchee)
- Mostly Patient
- One Thing At A Time
- Mantis
- Sugar Plum
- Same
- Great Advice
- Another Beautiful Day
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The announcement follows the release of the first single of this new era, the fiery and unapologetic Stay In Your Lane. Described as “a fierce reminder of why Barnett remains one of the most vital voices in modern guitar rock—restless, self-aware, and still finding new ways to hit the nerve,” by Paste, the song was accompanied by an at times squeamish music video, directed by filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Pavements). Following its release in October, Barnett delivered an electric performance of the single on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.