Courtney Barnett Announces New Album, Shares Single ‘Site Unseen’
Creature of Habit is set for release on 27 March via Mom+Pop.
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Aussie favourite Courtney Barnett has revealed her fourth solo studio album, Creature of Habit, is set for release on 27 March via Mom+Pop (pre-order/pre-save here).
The album is Barnett’s first solo record since her critically acclaimed 2021 album Things Take Time, Take Time and comes after Barnett left Melbourne for Los Angeles. The ten-track release explores the emotions that come with uprooting your life and starting again somewhere new.
Accompanying the album announcement is Barnett’s new single, ‘Site Unseen’, a collaboration with Waxahatchee, aka Katie Crutchfield.
“I tried three separate times over two 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 said of ‘Site Unseen’. “I kept hearing this really high harmony in my head, so for the fourth and final version, I asked Katie [Crutchfield of Waxahatchee] 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’.”
Check out the Juliana and Nicola Giraffe-directed music video for ‘Site Unseen’ below.
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The release of ‘Site Unseen’ follows lead single ‘Stay In Your Lane’, which arrived at the back end of 2025.
Since dropping her acclaimed debut album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, which came out way back in 2015, Barnett has released two more solo albums, a collaborative record with Kurt Vile and the 2023 instrumental album End of the Day, which acts as the soundtrack for the movie of the same name.
‘Site Unseen’ by Courtney Barnett and Waxahatchee is out now. Listen here. Creature of Habit arrives Friday 27 March via Mom+Pop. Pre-order/pre-save here. Check out the album artwork and tracklisting below.
Creature of Habit
1. Stay in Your Lane
2. Wonder
3. Site Unseen [ft. Waxahatchee]
4. Mostly Patient
5. One Thing at a Time
6. Mantis
7. Sugar Plum
8. Same
9. Great Advice
10. Another Beautiful Day
