UK band Courting have shared single “Battle,” the track is from the recording sessions for the album’s brand new album New Last Name, out today via Lower Third on Vinyl, CD, and DSPs.

New Last Name was recorded with Gary and Ryan Jarman of The Cribs, who worked closely with the band on production for a number of tracks. London duo DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ also lent their production skills to Courting’s recent single “We Look Good Together (Big Words)”, which was announced earlier this year.

New Last Name hints at new beginnings. “It’s a theatrical play within an album,” explains frontman Sean Murphy O’Neill. “There’s a lot going on. It can be simply enjoyed as an album, but there are characters, acts, stage directions etc. The listeners can decide on the narrative themselves, but we want them to get lost in it.
I’ll admit that New Last Name isn’t really a play. Whilst it is tied together by a narrative thread – it’s actually a collection of our most contained pop songs, and strangest experiments sat side by side”.

Courting, currently on tour in the EU, are set to play a 750-cap hometown show at Liverpool’s The Hanger in late-May. The band have played numerous festivals including Reading & Leeds Festival, Wide Eyed Festival, Latitude, Truck Festival, Live At Leeds, Community Festival, and The Great Escape. They also came together earlier this year for “The Wedding” – a hometown wedding-themed show which saw the band unveil new material for the first time.

Courting
New Last Name
Lower Third
Tracklisting

1. Throw
2. We Look Good Together (Big Words)
3. The Hills
4. Flex
5. Emily G
6. Babys
7. The Wedding
8. Happy Endings
9. America

Order New Last Name by Courting HERE