{"id":501691,"date":"2026-02-24T20:53:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501691\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:53:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:53:13","slug":"courtney-barnett-shares-new-songs-mantis-sugar-plum-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/501691\/","title":{"rendered":"Courtney Barnett Shares New Songs &#8220;Mantis&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Sugar Plum&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Courtney Barnett announced her new album Creature Of Habit and shared &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2485934\/courtney-barnett-announces-new-album-creature-of-habit-hear-site-unseen-feat-waxahatchee\/music\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Site Unseen<\/a>&#8221; featuring Waxahatchee. Today, the indie great is back with two more tracks: &#8220;Mantis&#8221; and &#8220;Sugar Plum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Mantis&#8217; is the microcosmic centerpiece of this album, it embodies the message and meaning of every track. It\u2019s a song about searching, and it helped me find my way through Creature Of Habit,&#8221; she explains, continuing:<\/p>\n<p>I was feeling particularly lost while I was working on this song. One day, I was standing in the kitchen, making a coffee, when I noticed a little green praying mantis sitting on top of the doorframe. I had never seen one there in the desert house, so I took it as an important sign from the universe. I texted a photo to Stella and she said it\u2019s good luck, look it up! I did a quick search and found it to also represent patience, perseverance and a guide for those who needed direction. I stood and spoke to the mantis for a while, it was a strange and enlightening moment that I\u2019ll never forget. Eventually, I got back to writing, and finally I had the chorus to this song.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the tunes below.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Creature Of Habit\u00a0is out 3\/27 on Mom + Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last month, Courtney Barnett announced her new album Creature Of Habit and shared &#8220;Site Unseen&#8221; featuring Waxahatchee. Today,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-501691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}