{"id":2306995,"date":"2026-03-01T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2306995"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:54:01","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T20:54:01","slug":"how-courtney-barnett-made-her-new-album-by-retreating-to-the-desert-it-nearly-drove-me-mad-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/how-courtney-barnett-made-her-new-album-by-retreating-to-the-desert-it-nearly-drove-me-mad-music\/","title":{"rendered":"How Courtney Barnett made her new album by retreating to the desert: \u2018It nearly drove me mad\u2019 | Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I<\/span>n the early months of 2024, Courtney Barnett<\/a> was living in the kind of limbo that usually precedes a major psychic shift. The Grammy-nominated Australian musician was bouncing between sublets as a transplant to Los Angeles \u2013 a city she still navigates via a mental map of Melbourne, the place that made her: \u201cSilver Lake is kind of like Collingwood,\u201d she says, laughing. She was simultaneously winding down Milk! Records, the independent label she co-founded more than a decade earlier, and writing her fourth record. Her head was spinning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt like the end of a chapter, and then the next chapter kind of began without me totally realising.\u201d<\/p>\n

That disorientation is the engine behind her new album, Creature of Habit. It opens with the synthy thrum of Stay in Your Lane, a track that addresses the friction of this transition with a characteristically blunt self-assessment: \u201cFeels like I\u2019m going backwards \/ Each day I preach my practice \/ And still it seems I wasn\u2019t ready for this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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