COURTNEY BARNETT – Creature Of Habit – LP – ‘Another Beautiful Day’ Caramel Coloured Vinyl [APR 3]

LP – Indies Exclusive Limited Edition Another Beautiful Day’ Caramel’ Coloured Vinyl.

In the hands of Courtney Barnett, fragments of everyday life become rich and riveting. A deft lyricist and virtuosic guitarist, she is an emblem of millennial wit and one of Australias most successful musical exports.

Creature of Habit, Courtney Barnetts fourth studio album, marks a decisive new chapter in her musical evolution. Its 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 internalising those feelings, she decided to bring all this swirling confusion directly into the recording process.

Based for much of her adult life in Melbourne, Barnett first found critical acclaim with 2013s The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, and broke into the mainstream in 2015 with her debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. Garnering a coveted Best New Artist Grammy nomination and numerous other accolades, the album stands as a generational classic. Barnett followed her debut with 2017s Lotta Sea Lice, an acclaimed collaborative record with Kurt Vile, and eschewed the vignettes of her early records on 2018s Tell Me How You Really Feel, her humid, political sophomore record, which featured the Margaret Atwood-invoking single Nameless, Faceless. In 2021, she released Things Take Time, Take Time, a remarkable artistic step forward. Now, 5 years later, shes made the move to Fiction Records and is back with this incredible new record – a brilliant, bold and addictive musical statement.

Tracklist:

Side A
1. Stay In Your Lane
2. Wonder
3. Site Unseen (featuringWaxahatchee)
4. Mostly Patient
5. One Thing At A time

Side B
1. Mantis
2. Sugar Plum
3. Same
4. Great Advice
5. Another Beautiful Day