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  • Summary: The latest full-length release from British indie rock band The Courteeners features guest appearances by Brooke Combe, DMA's and Pixey.
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  1. There’s confidence, and then there’s this.
  2. Mojo
    Dec 3, 2024
    80
    They remain wholly beholden to Liam Fray’s songwriting, but they’re assisted by contemporaries: upwardly mobile Scottish soul singer Brooke Combe offers depth-giving harmonies on Sweet Surrender, as does Pixey on the unusually sweary First Name Terms. Solitude Of The Night Bus skirts too close to Arctic Monkeys, but Fray is developing apace. [Dec 2024, p.85]
  3. Record Collector
    Dec 3, 2024
    80
    Another winner with their seventh album. A big part of its success is down to smart collaborations. [Christmas 2024, p.131]
  4. Dec 3, 2024
    70
    A trim 10 tracks – and 35 minutes of music – ‘Pink Cactus Café’ feels like a pared back record, a slightly old fashioned ‘two sides of vinyl’ structure.