Courting

Courting return to The Boileroom off the back of their new album “It's deliberately very succinct and straight to the point,” says Courting’s Sean Murphy-O'Neill of the band’s latest, and third, album. “We wanted to keep everything incredibly direct – to hit everyone in the face and leave.”

Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ is an album full of dualities, contrasts and contradictions. It contains some of the most straight-up pop music the band have ever made, but it’s also arguably their most experimental work to date. It is fun and silly, peppered with in-jokes, references, and easter eggs, but it is detailed, deeply considered, and masterfully produced and mixed. “It's meant to feel very contradictory and confusing but it’s also fully realised,” Murphy-O’Neill says. “It’s a real culmination of things. ”