Courteeners release their third studio album ‘Anna’ today on V2. It's been two years since the band's last album ‘Falcon’, which charted at No. 6 and followed their No. 4 debut ‘St. Jude’. 

“I realised that our first LP was very raw and ready,” explains frontman and lyricist Liam Fray, “while the second one had those big, slow numbers. For this one I felt we had to go back to that rawness, but with an electronic edge.”

‘Lose Control’ - the first single from the album - opens with an addictive hook followed by Liam’s distinctive vocals which catapult into a huge chorus of drums and melody.  Then there’s the darkly paranoiac ‘Sharks are Circling’, the pulsing, wide-angle anthems ‘Van Der Graaff’ and ‘Push Yourself’, contrasting with the lovelorn and intimate ‘Marquee’. 

“Anna is a new chapter sonically for Courteeners”, Liam continues. “Our music, like our minds, has evolved and expanded. We have re-arrived. Welcome to the rave”.