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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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- Record Label: Ignition Records
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, New Wave/Post-Punk Revival
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Dec 3, 2024There’s confidence, and then there’s this.
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MojoDec 3, 2024They 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]
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Record CollectorDec 3, 2024Another winner with their seventh album. A big part of its success is down to smart collaborations. [Christmas 2024, p.131]
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Dec 3, 2024A 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.