Courting - Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story' (2025) [Hi-Res]
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BAND/ARTIST: Courting
- Title: Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: Lower Third
- Genre: Alternative, Indie Rock
- Quality: FLAC 24-Bit/44.1 kHz; 16-Bit/44.1 kHz; MP3 320 kbps
- Total Time: 00:25:37
- Total Size: 61; 191; 320 mb
- WebSite: Album Preview
Album review
On Courting's third album, the Liverpool quartet is all about contrast. There is a wonderfully jarring dissonance between the first two tracks: "Rollback Intro" sets the scene with a lovely bit of neoclassical violin—only for that mood to be decimated by the heavy, snub-nosed industrial grind that opens "Stealth Rollback," which abruptly switches to a numbing drone leavened by a warm, round piano line that's then pierced by bludgeoning vocals. "The album really revolves around a theme of duality," singer and guitarist Sean Murphy-O'Neill told NME when asked about that Fiona Apple-length title. "I guess it kind of sums up our approach on this record: short and concise and at the same time considered and elaborate." Indeed, each song has a "twin"—a second track that recycles sections of melody or lyrics or other motifs. "Can we split off in groups of two?" Murphy O'Neill sings on "After You," which constructs a shoegaze wall and decorates it with bits of emo tat (the kind that's also adorned some of their best past efforts, like "Throw" off 2024's New Last Name). Songs like "Namcy"—a poppy, punky bounce that's lush with Johnny Marr style guitar sunshine and youthful energy—won't help Courting shake off The 1975 comparisons, but the band is working toward something more interesting than just radio pop. "Pause At You" exhibits a magpie's mentality, stuffing every corner with attention-getting bits, from sharp-angled, ass-shaking post punk to funk beats to confident bass; it is the sound of a band clearly working up a sweat and dreaming big: "I see God in the city, I don't believe it/ And I see girls tonight, typeset in white neon lights … New York City, call me, I got bright eyes." Emo power ballad "Lust for Life" is full to the brim (including with a slow-burn sax solo that matches one from "Eleven Sent (This Time)" two songs earlier) and builds to a crescendo of on-the-sleeve emotion. But then that changes abruptly to a wildly different direction—one that flirts with the woozy mumble and jangle of the Libertines. For a moment, Courting seems to nod to Room on Fire-era the Strokes (that pointed, sunny guitar!) with "Likely place for them to be," but don't get too comfortable—it's all headed for a collision before the end. © Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1 Rollback Intro
2 Stealth Rollback
3 Pause at You
4 Namcy
5 Eleven Sent (This Time)
6 After You
7 Lust for Life
8 Likely place for them to be
Courting - "Lust for Life Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" 24-bit-44100-Hz flac.zip - 320.8 MB
Courting - "Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" flac.zip - 191.7 MB
Courting - "Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" mp3.zip - 61.1 MB
On Courting's third album, the Liverpool quartet is all about contrast. There is a wonderfully jarring dissonance between the first two tracks: "Rollback Intro" sets the scene with a lovely bit of neoclassical violin—only for that mood to be decimated by the heavy, snub-nosed industrial grind that opens "Stealth Rollback," which abruptly switches to a numbing drone leavened by a warm, round piano line that's then pierced by bludgeoning vocals. "The album really revolves around a theme of duality," singer and guitarist Sean Murphy-O'Neill told NME when asked about that Fiona Apple-length title. "I guess it kind of sums up our approach on this record: short and concise and at the same time considered and elaborate." Indeed, each song has a "twin"—a second track that recycles sections of melody or lyrics or other motifs. "Can we split off in groups of two?" Murphy O'Neill sings on "After You," which constructs a shoegaze wall and decorates it with bits of emo tat (the kind that's also adorned some of their best past efforts, like "Throw" off 2024's New Last Name). Songs like "Namcy"—a poppy, punky bounce that's lush with Johnny Marr style guitar sunshine and youthful energy—won't help Courting shake off The 1975 comparisons, but the band is working toward something more interesting than just radio pop. "Pause At You" exhibits a magpie's mentality, stuffing every corner with attention-getting bits, from sharp-angled, ass-shaking post punk to funk beats to confident bass; it is the sound of a band clearly working up a sweat and dreaming big: "I see God in the city, I don't believe it/ And I see girls tonight, typeset in white neon lights … New York City, call me, I got bright eyes." Emo power ballad "Lust for Life" is full to the brim (including with a slow-burn sax solo that matches one from "Eleven Sent (This Time)" two songs earlier) and builds to a crescendo of on-the-sleeve emotion. But then that changes abruptly to a wildly different direction—one that flirts with the woozy mumble and jangle of the Libertines. For a moment, Courting seems to nod to Room on Fire-era the Strokes (that pointed, sunny guitar!) with "Likely place for them to be," but don't get too comfortable—it's all headed for a collision before the end. © Shelly Ridenour
Tracklist:
1 Rollback Intro
2 Stealth Rollback
3 Pause at You
4 Namcy
5 Eleven Sent (This Time)
6 After You
7 Lust for Life
8 Likely place for them to be
Courting - "Lust for Life Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" 24-bit-44100-Hz flac.zip - 320.8 MB
Courting - "Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" flac.zip - 191.7 MB
Courting - "Lust for Life, Or: 'How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story'" mp3.zip - 61.1 MB
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