Courtney Barnett – Creature of Habit (Mantis Green Vinyl)

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For the last few years, singer and songwriter Courtney Barnett has nursed a persistent, low grade obsession with the artist Georgia OKeeffe. In March of 2024, while Barnett and her band were holed up in the studio in Joshua Tree, recording what would become her fourth album, Creature of Habit, out this spring, the singer would habitually open A Painters Kitchen: Recipes from the Kitchen of Georgia OKeeffe when it was her turn to cook.

I love it, Barnett said of OKeeffes cult cookbook. Its so beautiful and simple.

Simplicity is particularly appealing when youre feeling lost.And by the time Barnett gathered in the desert with her friends and fellow musicians last fall, shed been through a number of years of chronic uncertainty. Barnett decided to stare it down, show up in the studio with much less of a plan than shes used to and kind of let it rip.

The result is an album that continues to engage with the central question Barnett has been consumed by since she started writing songs: how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life.