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Alison Stewart (0:29)
This is all of it on wnyc. I'm Alison Stewart and to close out our show, we're going to spotlight a local concert from one of our recent guests, Australian musician Courtney Barnett. She's playing King's Theatre in Brooklyn tomorrow night following the release of her latest album, Creature of Habit. Here's the lead single, Stay in youn la.
Courtney Barnett (singing) (1:02)
I know you're trying to help me I know you're trying to help me I know you're trying to help me Feels like I'm going backwards each day I preach my practice and still it seems I wasn't ready for this.
Alison Stewart (1:26)
Since the release of her last album in 2021, Courtney Barnett has moved to the United States. She's now resident. She created her new album during A year in Joshua Tree and she was tapping into nature. The album is titled Creature of Habit. Courtney Barnett will be playing at King's Theater in Brooklyn tomorrow, May 9th. And when Courtney joined me in studio for an all of it listening party, I started by asking her what prompted her recent move to the States.
Courtney Barnett (speaking) (1:54)
I think I get asked that a lot and I don't really know. I think I just wanted a change in my life and.
Interviewer (2:01)
Yeah, what's the transition been like?
Courtney Barnett (speaking) (2:04)
I mean, I guess, you know, I wrote this album and I spent nearly three years or something writing it and recording it and working on it. And I think, you know, sometimes you don't fully realize what you're going through until you look back at the work you've done or whatever it is. So I think I'm probably still processing it, but it's been nice and just a big life change.
Interviewer (2:27)
You know, everybody keeps saying, oh, she recorded this in Joshua Tree. What does that mean to you when you, when someone says, oh, she recorded it in Joshua Tree, and how do you feel in that sentence?
Courtney Barnett (speaking) (2:39)
Well, I was, I was living out there for about a year and I wrote a lot of the album out there and, and Joshua Tree was just one of those places. When I first came to America in 2013, I, I, the first time I went out there, I really loved it and I, and I went back often and had these little kind of nice, little kind of creative, creative trips where I would write or make Music, and I always loved it. And in the back of my head, I was always thinking, I'd love to live here at some point. So I think, you know, just after Covid, I was kind of just like, just do it. Just give it a go. And otherwise you're forever going to be thinking about, you know, the thing that you wanted to do, but you never did, so. So I did it.