Courteeners have released the title track from their forthcoming seventh album, Pink Cactus Café - out October 25.
A melancholy daydream of a song that arrives just in time to soundtrack these last disappearing days of summer, ‘Pink Cactus Café’ is three and a half minutes of indelible melody and evocative lyrics that wistfully plan escape from the here and now.
Courteener’s 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?”
Listen to ‘Pink Cactus Café’ on Red Devils Records.
‘Pink Catcus 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, to so many: indelible melody and choruses purpose built for arenas and festival fields. Basically, it’s Courteeners at their very best.
Pink Cactus Café is 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 their debut album St.Jude reached #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.
Following a huge summer of shows inclusing a massive headlining a 25,000 capacity show at Lytham Festival and a high profile slot at TRNSMT in Glasgow, Courteeners are due to play a series of headline arena dates this autumn.
