Courtney Barnett is back on our screens and behind the wheel once again with “Stay In Your Lane.”
The celebrated Australian singer and songwriter was the musical guest Wednesday (Oct. 22) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she roused night owls with her new single.
“Stay In Your Lane” (via Mom+Pop Music) is a blast of ‘90s-leaning indie rock, and is Barnett’s first new material since the 2023 instrument LP End Of The Day and her first new lyrical piece since the 2021 album Things Take Time, Take Time, which cracked the Billboard 200 chart, debuted in the top 40 on the Official U.K. Chart, and impacted the top 10 in her homeland.
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“Gotta get this off my chest” she chants in the chorus, leading a full band. “This never would’ve happened if I stayed in my lane, stayed the same way.”
Watch Barnett’s late night performance of “Stay In Your Lane” below.
The Grammy Award-nominated Melbourne artist has been quietly revving up her full-scale return to the stage with a string of intimate shows at Levon Helm Studios and in Joshua Tree, and a date booked next month at Odeon Theatre in Hobart, Tasmania.
Barnett emerged in the 2010s as one of Australia’s finest indie exports. Her debut full-length album from 2015, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, peaked at No. 4 in Australia, and blasted into the top 20 in the United Kingdom and the United States, and won the Australian Music Prize, awarded to the best Australian album, regardless of critical success; along with a trio of ARIA Awards and a nomination for best international female at the BRIT Awards. Then, her solo follow-up from 2018, Tell Me How You Really Feel, cracked the top 10 in the United Kingdom, led several Billboard charts and peaked at No. 22 on the Billboard 200.
A collaborative project with Kurt Vile, 2017’s Lotta Sea Lice, was another success story, reaching No. 5 in Australia, No. 11 in the U.K., and No. 51 in the U.S.
There’s no word yet on when that next, fourth solo studio album will see the light of day.
