Courting are hitting the new year running as the Liverpool lads share their upcoming project Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’s [out Mar. 14] second such single “After You.”

Anxiety and paranoia take center stage in this arresting, post-punk path as a rush of sound transfixes eager ears. Riff and percussion play off synth-driven stylings to evoke a visceral, heavy-hitting intensity while frontperson Sean Murphy-O’Neill crystalzies that approach with his inherent-minded vocality. Speaking to his process, he shares:

It is an exercise in direct songwriting, an attempt to create something very straightforward. We wanted the wall of guitars and the drums to feel almost hypnotic.

Mission accomplished.

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