About this item

'Lust for Life, Or: How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story', is centred around duality. The intention is to bring together everything Courting have created thus far into a succinct, direct, record.

Each song on the album is 'twinned', with another, existing within the same type of world. Take for example the opening and closing bookends of the record, both featuring the same string melody but with the first serving as an orchestral introduction, and the second as a speeding dance punk track. Tracks 2 and tracks 8 interpolate the same drum and string samples but shift them into completely different beasts. The first sitting somewhere between 2010's dubstep and a noise band covering a small faces track, and the latter being a multi part, auto-tune crooning ballad with a striking saxophone solo. 

The aim is clear as Courting balance the indie & pop songwriting of their previous records with their most experimental moments, each detail more refined than the last time.

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: Tastefully lurching between angular, funk-adjacent garage rock and anthemic pop-punk, Courting's sound has never been so meticulously balanced and as seamlessly smooth as this. A band keen to defy convention, the juxtaposition of these pieces is as fascinating as their fluidity and variety.

TRACK LISTING

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
9. Rollback Intro
10. Stealth Rollback
11. Pause At You
12. Namcy