THE TITLE TRACK FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM OUT FRIDAY 25 OCTOBER 2024
Celebrated UK outfit Courteeners have released the title track from their forthcoming seventh album, Pink Cactus Café. Listen here.
A melancholy daydream of a song that arrives just as we begin to welcome an early Summer here in Australia, “Pink Cactus Café” is three and a half minutes of indelible melody and evocative lyrics that wistfully plan escape from the here and now.
Courteeners’ Liam Fray on “Pink Cactus Café”: “I guess on a basic level, it’s about escape. Finding a bit of time for yourself. Trying to find that perfect place; the idea that things are better on holiday. It’s about the tea houses of Morocco, the beaches in Marseille, breakfast at home with a loved one…It’s the utopia, really. Does it really exist? Maybe not. Doesn’t stop us chasing it though, does it?”
“Pink Cactus Café” is taken from the forthcoming album of the same name and Courteeners’ seventh studio album. With Liam Fray co-producing all tracks and featuring contributions from friends of the band such as DMAs, Brooke Combe, James and Ian Skelly (The Coral), Pixey, Charlie Salt (Blossoms), Ola Modupe-Ojo (Bipolar Sunshine)and Theo Hutchcraft (Hurts) amongst many more, Pink Cactus Café is the sound of a band pushing at all of the edges of what they do whilst retaining the core DNA of what makes their songs work so brilliantly, for so many: indelible melody and choruses purpose built for arenas and festival fields. Basically, it’s Courteeners at their very best.
Pink Cactus Café features the previously released single “Solitude Of The Night Bus” which received widespread radio playlist support in the UK. The album will be released on Friday 25 October 2024 on Ignition Records, available on formats including CD, cassette, signed and limited edition coloured LPs versions featuring an exclusive bonus track. Digital formats will include a Dolby Atmos version of the album. Pre-order and pre-save here.
Pink Cactus Caféis Courteeners’ first new music since 2020’s More. Again. Forever. – a record that received critical acclaim and was widely regarded as one of the band’s most confident and consistent records. More recently, a reissue of Courteeners’ debut album St. Jude reached No 1 in the UK Album Charts in 2023, fifteen years after its original release.
One of the most cherished bands in Britain, across their 16-year career, the band have had consistent commercial success achieving BPI certified Platinum (x1), Gold (x3) and Silver (x2) awards for their albums. Earlier this year, Courteeners were awarded Band of the Year at the Nordoff Robbins Northern Music Awards.
