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Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story

Courting

Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story

Third full-length release from the post-punk Liverpool quartet

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Lower Third
UK Release date
14/03/2025
US Release date
14/03/2025
  1. 10.0 |   Dork

    Indie, electronica, pop-rock, pop-punk – it doesn’t matter what you call it; ‘Lust for Life’ is Courting’s best album yet, and they’re only just getting started
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  2. 10.0 |   The Observer

    The Liverpool foursome’s joyful, floor-filling rock on album No 3 finds a band maturing into greatness
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  3. 8.0 |   All Music

    Lust for Life is weirdly joyous and joyously weird, and it's marvelously entertaining either way; it's the band's strongest and most cohesive work yet
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  4. 8.0 |   NME

    The British guitar outfit’s third – another ambitious, alternative project – sandwiches classic indie-pop between gutsy art-rock experimentalism
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  5. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    An album full of ideas and creativity adds its makers to Liverpool’s rich musical heritage
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  6. 7.0 |   God Is In The TV

    Maybe if they gave themselves a bit longer before putting it out, they would have come up with the genre-smashing classic that is undoubtedly somewhere within them
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  7. 7.0 |   Clash

    Everything Courting have done has been constructed up until this point, and executed with the band’s exact visions in mind from start to finish
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  8. 4.0 |   Far Out

    There’s a distinct lack of identity. Instead of carving out their own space, they end up borrowing one crafted by other bands
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