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Courting: Lust for Life, Or: ‘How to Thread the Needle and Come Out the Other Side to Tell the Story’ review – a giant leap forward


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

Liverpudlian indie rockers Courting can verge on annoying sometimes, with their predilection for Auto-Tuned vocals, various overwrought forays into ill-chosen genres and, frankly, the Fiona Apple-esque title of this LP. Stealth Rollback is pure metallic electronic joy, feral cats fighting on a broken keyboard. The tragedy of today’s music economy is that so many acts like Courting struggle to release two albums, let alone three.

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