Critic's Pick: Courtney Barnett

Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett emerged with a bang in 2013, issuing her debut The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas and swiftly earning critical-darling status for the stream-of-consciousness lyricism in tunes like “Avant Gardener” and “History Eraser.” Follow-up releases Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit in 2015 and the Kurt Vile collab Lotta Sea Lice in 2017 further cemented her low-key-rock-star status and set the pace. Barnett is slow and steady with her release schedule — an LP every few years, with special projects and releases peppered in from time to time — but the wait is always worth it. This year’s Creature of Habit, her first since 2021’s appropriately titled Things Take Time, Take Time, is a strong 10-song collection. Leadoff single “One Thing at a Time” has shades of her old pal Kurt Vile in its noodly riffage, while “Great Advice” is an upbeat, askew, two-and-a-half-minute ripper that calls to mind Barnett’s early-career efforts. The left-handed Aussie will likely sound great when she returns to the Ryman Tuesday for her fourth appearance at the Mother Church in the past decade — slow and steady. Truman Sinclair will open.

7:30 p.m. at the Ryman

116 Rep. John Lewis Way N.