Courting tell us about their mouthful of a new album: “We’ve balance our love of pop songs and more experimental stuff”

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Courting have spoken to NME about their rowdy new single ‘Pause At You’ and their duality-themed third album ‘Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’.

Check it out below, along with details of their 2025 UK headline tour.The Liverpudlian rockers – comprised of vocalist Sean Murphy-O’Neill, drummer Sean Thomas, guitarist Joshua Cope and bassist Connor McCann – have shared their rowdy and infectious new single ‘Pause At You’ today (November 20).

The band describe the track as “a culmination of everything we’ve been working on over the last few years” and “an observation on night time paranoia mixed about with night out ecstasy – light outing, floor filling, tie undressing, rock.”“It’s vague — paranoid but filled with ecstasy and energy,” frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill told NME. “I’m kind of back to writing less literal songs, so it is more of an abstract meditation on a lot of rock and roll clichés.

It also calls back to some of the world-building that we explored in the last two albums.”‘Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ follows their 2022 debut ‘Guitar Music‘ and 2024’s ‘New Last Name‘.Speaking to NME about why the song felt like the perfect introduction to the record Murphy-O’Neill said: “We wanted to illustrate that we’re not yet finished evolving as a band. ‘Pause At You’ feels like the meeting point of all the different styles we’ve been experimenting with.”Check out our full interview below, where Murphy-O’Neill told us about creating a body of work that is direct and straight, the role that duality plays within the album, and embarking on their first-ever US tour.NME: Hello Sean. The album’s title ‘Lust for.