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Creature of Habit

Pitchfork·@EthanBeck·2 months ago
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Reader Score No score yet, be the first to add. 0.0 Genre: Rock Label: Mom+Pop Release Date: 2026 Courtney Barnett knows how to make two chords last a lifetime. Her sometimes slacker, sometimes twee rock takes recurring major sevenths and wrings them for all their existential meaning. It’s a hallmark of her craft: 2015’s skeptical ode to suburban living, “Depreston,” emphasizes the difficulty of feeling truly at home over alternating C and F-major-7 chords for five minutes. While she hasn’t offered character-driven, droll garage rock for a few albums, Barnett has doubled down on those circular, clean progressions to underline her pivot toward first-person narratives about feeling rudderless and looking for direction. Since 2021’s underwhelming Things Take Time, Take Time, she’s tried to get unstuck through therapy, pottery classes, a Georgia O’Keeffe obsession, and a move from Australia to Los Angeles.…

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