{"id":24901,"date":"2024-01-24T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T17:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=24901"},"modified":"2024-01-22T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T17:30:12","slug":"new-music-revue-courting-delivers-comforting-heartbreak-with-second-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2024\/01\/24\/new-music-revue-courting-delivers-comforting-heartbreak-with-second-album\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Revue<\/em>: Courting delivers comforting heartbreak with second album"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Courting
\nNew Last Name
\n<\/i>(Lower Third)
\n3\/5<\/p>\n

Liverpool-based rock band Courting\u2019s second album, New Last Name<\/i>, is centred on an ex. An ex who has settled down and is happier for it: it\u2019s \u201cSomeone Like You\u201d if Adele was a soccer hooligan.<\/p>\n

But perhaps this comparison is misleading. New Last Name<\/i> is not meant to be pored over like an Adele album. Occasionally, something does stick out as poignant, but, for the most part, the lyrics are not the main selling point.<\/p>\n

What is a selling point, however, are the melodies. The guitar riffs are infectious. There are also a few nice little experimental flares: a synthesizer that oozes in and out of the tracks, some brass sprinkled here and there.<\/p>\n

Lead singer Sean Murphy-O\u2019Neill is rough but indelibly charming. The songs\u2019 narrator is heartbroken, yes, but it would seem this is the kind of heartbreak that involves a pint of Guinness with your favourite blokes. And there\u2019s nothing wrong with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courting New Last Name (Lower Third) 3\/5 Liverpool-based rock band Courting\u2019s second album, New Last Name, is centred on an ex. An ex who has settled down and is happier for it: it\u2019s \u201cSomeone Like You\u201d if Adele was a soccer hooligan. But perhaps this comparison is misleading. New Last Name is not meant to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,303],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-24-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24903,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24901\/revisions\/24903"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}