The game isn’t always fair, so it’s your choice if you want to play by any of it’s rules. Liverpool’s Courting went for an orthodox approach on their previous album New Last Name, but for it’s successor they’ve decided that playing things straight is for wimps.
With a full title of Lust for Life – How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story there’s a whiff of potential concept album about, but although there are some side ideas in play – the eight tracks are part of a form intended to have complete symmetry – the music is a distraction of it’s own.
Despite the short running time (A pocket size twenty five minutes) the quartet cover a lot of ground, from the meaty industrial throb of Stealth Rollback to Eleven Sent’s post grunge. Fidgeting, the quartet rarely stay in one place for long however, with the title track being three different songs in one. It’s left to Namcy and the out and out indie banger Pause At You to work as salvage, but whilst rules are made to be broken, Lust for Life never quite justifies the act.
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