One Thing At A Time Courtney Barnett

• 1 One Thing At A Time 04:42
• 2 Mantis 04:40
• 3 Sugar Plum 04:35
• 4 Site Unseen 02:46
• 5 Stay In Your Lane 03:14
• Total Runtime 19:57

Info for One Thing At A Time

The new album comprises 10 tracks, featuring a guest appearance from Waxahatchee, produced by Courtney Barnett, Stella Mozgawa and John Congleton. It was recorded following a period of significant upheaval for her, after she relocated from Australia to Los Angeles.

"One Thing At A Time" is all about being hopelessly overwhelmed, and it starts out with a pleasantly ambling groove before building to some extremely satisfying crescendos. She's got Flea on bass for this one! That's cool! The OG Lance Bangs directed the great video, and it's got Barnett calmly shredding while hijinks erupt all around her. Are Los Angeles apartment complexes really this much fun? Something tells me that they're not. At a key moment, Barnett drives her truck into the Hollywood Hills.

“I do feel like it’s a really joyful album, even though a lot of it was hard to write and hard to finish. There’s pain and all that stuff in there, but that’s just life. This record took so long for me to finish; I really struggled with it. Part of it, for me, was changing these habits in my life, changing these patterns. It was leaning into this darkness or confusion or doubt, feeling it, but then choosing joy instead. And I hear it in the final product.” (Courtney Barnett )

Courtney Barnett’s fourth studio album ‘Creature of Habit’ arrives Friday March 27th via Mom+Pop Music, and its focus track “One Thing At A Time” makes an emphatic case for why this is one of the most anticipated indie rock records of the year. Directed by Lance Bangs, the video accompanies a track that is quintessential Barnett, two minutes of stomping, internally combusting tension, featuring Flea on bass, before a mid-song reckoning gives way to a euphoric three-minute guitar solo and a final lyric that lands like a genuine exhale: “I’m ready for a change.” It is one of the most cathartic moments she has committed to tape.

‘Creature of Habit’ was written in the wake of Barnett relocating from Australia to Los Angeles and closing her long-running label Milk! Records, a period of genuine upheaval that she channeled directly into the recording process rather than keeping at arm’s length. The album’s central question, how to get out of your own way so you can truly feel your life, runs through every track, and the accumulated weight of previous singles “Stay in Your Lane,” “Site Unseen” with Waxahatchee, “Mantis,” and “Sugar Plum” makes “One Thing At A Time” feel like the record’s emotional payoff. This is Barnett at her most emotionally exposed and musically assured, and one of the defining indie rock albums of 2026.

Courtney Barnett

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Courtney Barnett
is an Australian singer, songwriter, and musician. Known for her deadpan singing style and witty, rambling lyrics, she attracted attention with the release of her debut EP I’ve Got a Friend Called Emily Ferris in 2012. Barnett’s debut studio album—Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit—was released in 2015 to widespread acclaim. At the2015 ARIA Music Awards, she won four awards from eight nominations. She was nominated for Best New Artist at the 58th Annual Grammy Awards and International Female Solo Artist at the 2016 Brit Awards. She released Lotta Sea Lice, a collaborative album with Kurt Vile, in 2017. She released her second solo album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, to further acclaim in 2018. Creature of Habit is her most recent studio album, released in March 2026.

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