With just days to go until the release of their third studio album 'Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’', out this Friday 14th March via Lower Third, Courting have shared one final preview in the form of their new single, 'Namcy'.
Following the acclaimed singles 'Pause At You' and 'After You', 'Namcy' finds Courting at their most playful and piercing, channelling the euphoric rush of love at first sight while hinting at the album’s deeper, darker narrative. The track’s bouncy guitars and pulsating four-on-the-floor disco rhythm fuel its push-and-pull between wide-eyed devotion and the creeping inevitability of disillusionment.
Lyrically, frontman Sean Murphy-O’Neill paints a vivid portrait of infatuation and idealism, dropping references from Bowie’s “Absolute Beginners” to the fleeting escapism of a “French Exit.” These motifs perfectly reflect the album’s overarching themes—romance, fantasy, and reality colliding head-on.
“’Namcy’ is designed to be very hopeful, a stark contrast to the edges of the album,” says Murphy-O’Neill. “It is straight-set—a linear storyline with made-up words. Sometimes, I think it’s important to put aside the need to be clever and get lost in something a bit more nostalgic, slightly unrealistic, very pretty.”
Listen to 'Namcy' in the player below.
