Don’t look now, but Courteeners have been busy creating the soundtrack to our lives for nearly 20 years. The enduring English indie rock band serve up new album Pink Cactus Café next month via Ignition Records, but not before dangling the vibrant title track as a much-needed means of melancholic mental escapism.
And that’s just what we need right now.
“I guess on a basic level, it’s about escape,” says Liam Fray. “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 acts as Courteeners’ seventh studio album and features appearances from DMAs, Brooke Combe, James and Ian Skelly of The Coral, Pixey, Blossoms’ Charlie Salt, Ola Modupe-Ojo of Bipolar Sunshine, Hurts’ Theo Hutchcraft and others. Take a dip into the title-track below.