Courting confirm debut album Guitar Music details

Courting by Charlie Harris

Courting have a lengthy UK tour booked for the autumn.

Courting have confirmed the details of their debut album Guitar Music.

Recorded with Gorillaz and Jamie T cohort James Dring, the album has been set for release on September 23rd and will take a wide-ranging look at the flow of life according to frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill.

“Guitar Music is realising you actually love the music you hated when you were 13,” he says. “It is lip fillers and being thousands of pounds in debt.”

“It is missing mundane things about your childhood and mourning celebrities you were only aware of posthumously. It is dancing with your friends. It is falling in love with a drawing and it is always online. It is touching toes in bed, hearts carved into trees.”

“It is swimming outside and listening to pop smoke. It is fireworks over family parks and Guitar Music is the opposite of our early releases in that it is very emotional. The stories told may be from the perspective of other characters at times, but these songs are filled with actual emotion rather than us trying to hide.”

“We felt that Guitar Music as a phrase was reductive and therefore decided to create a record with the intention of it being a body of work that could redeem being a ‘guitar band’, by pushing it to different boundaries.”

“To us, this record is a statement piece, it felt very exciting to make, to us, it feels a lot more special than we’d originally expected it would be.”