Courtney Barnett releases new single

Today, GRAMMY-nominated Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett makes an exciting return with her brand new single, 'Stay In Your Lane'. The song kicks off her next musical chapter and is the first new material since the surprise instrumental record 'End Of The Day' and her first new 'song’ since the critically acclaimed album 'Things Take Time, Take Time'. Stay In Your Lane proves once again why Barnett is not only one of the most innovative songwriters of her time but hands down one of the most impressive rock guitarists of her generation.

The track, brimming with a ferocious rhythm section and raucous guitar riffage, features Barnett’s signature evocative lyricism. 'Gotta get this off my chest' she chants in the chorus, “This never would’ve happened if I stayed in my lane, stayed the same way.” Not for the faint-hearted, filmmaker Alex Ross Perry (Pavements) is behind the at times squeamish new video for 'Stay In Your Lane' which can be seen below.

She has been quietly making her live return, road-testing new music at a series of intimate shows at Levon Helm Studios and in Joshua Tree but will be returning to screens on Wednesday, October 22nd, performing the new single on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.

ABOUT COURTNEY BARNETT

In the hands of Courtney Barnett, fragments of everyday life become rich and riveting. A deft lyricist and virtuosic guitarist with inimitable musicianship, Barnett first found critical acclaim with 2013’s The Double EP: 'A Sea of Split Peas' and broke into the mainstream in 2015 with her debut album, 'Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit.' Garnering a coveted Best New Artist Grammy nomination and numerous other accolades including Saturday Night Live, the album stands as a generational classic. Barnett followed her debut with 2017’s 'Lotta Sea Lice', an acclaimed collaborative record with Kurt Vile, and eschewed the vignettes of her early records on 2018’s 'Tell Me How You Really Feel', her humid, political sophomore record, which featured the Margaret Atwood-invoking single 'Nameless, Faceless'. In 2021, she released 'Things Take Time, Take Time', a remarkable artistic step forward.