Photo Credit – Michael Clements
Reveal New Track – ‘Sweet Surrender’ (featuring Brooke Combe)
Taken From The Forthcoming Album ‘Pink Cactus Café’
Out 25th October 2024 (via Ignition Records)
Headline UK Arena Tour Next Month
Last Remaining Tickets Available Here
Courteeners today release a brand new track – Sweet Surrender – from their forthcoming seventh album, Pink Cactus Café. Featuring guest vocals from breakout Scottish soul artist (and regular guest at Courteeners’ live shows) Brooke Combe, Sweet Surrender glides in on flickering acoustic guitars and a driving rhythm track before opening out with a soaring chorus.
Sweet Surrender is the third track to be revealed from Courteeners’ seventh studio album Pink Cactus Café, released on 25th October 2024 (on Ignition Records). It includes previously released Solitude Of The Night Bus plus current single and album title track, which have both received widespread national radio playlist support. Watch the stunning performance video for Pink Cactus Café shot in Manchester’s Albert Hall here.
With Liam Fray co-producing all tracks and featuring additional contributions from friends of the band such as DMAs, 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 pop-leaning, exploratory and the band’s most collaborative forward looking record yet.
The album is 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.
Following a summer of shows including a massive headline 25,000 capacity show at Lytham Festival and high profile slot at TRNSMT in Glasgow, Courteeners embark on an anticipated headline UK arena tour next month. The last few tickets are available here.
Thu 14th Nov Glasgow OVO Hydro
Fri 15th Nov Manchester Co-Op Live (SOLD OUT)
Sat 16th Nov London 02 Academy Brixton (SOLD OUT)
Thu 21st Nov Leeds First Direct Arena
Fri 22nd Nov Cardiff Utilita Arena
Sat 23rd Nov Birmingham Utilita Arena
One of the most cherished bands in Britain, across their 16-year career, Courteeners’ have had consistent commercial success. Pink Cactus Café is Courteeners’ first new music since 2020’s critically acclaimed More. Again. Forever. and more recently, a reissue of Courteeners’ debut album St. Jude which reached No 1 in the UK Album Charts in 2023, fifteen years after its original release.
Pink Cactus Café – Album Tracklist:
- Sweet Surrender (featuring Brooke Combe)
- Weekend Shy Of A Feeling
- Pink Cactus Café
- Where Are We Now?
- The Beginning Of The End (featuring DMAs)
- Solitude Of The Night Bus
- First Name Terms (featuring Pixey)
- Lu Lu
- Love You Any Less
- Bitten By Unseen Teeth
