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Track List
01) Cosmic Misery
02) 1997, Passing in the Hallway
03) Present, Tense
04) Dust, Juice, Bones and Hair
05) Bubble in My Bloodstream
06) Move to Durham and Never Leave
07) Gin and Listerine
08) Sleeping Beauty
09) 1967, I Miss You, I'm Lonely
10) So Sad (So Sad)
01) Cosmic Misery
02) 1997, Passing in the Hallway
03) Present, Tense
04) Dust, Juice, Bones and Hair
05) Bubble in My Bloodstream
06) Move to Durham and Never Leave
07) Gin and Listerine
08) Sleeping Beauty
09) 1967, I Miss You, I'm Lonely
10) So Sad (So Sad)
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First Released
2014
Pop-Punk
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"Courting Strong" is the debut full length studio album from UK pop-punk band Martha, released May 26, 2014 through Fortuna Pop! in the UK and on Salinas Records in the USA.
Recorded by Matthew Johnson at Suburban Home Studios, Leeds.
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From a.review by drowned in sound.
Many would argue that the concept of bands writing songs about growing in the grim old north is a tired one, a path trodden so heavily down the years that there’s precious little of interest left for anyone to write about the subject.Two big examples in the shape of Pulp and Arctic Monkeys spring to mind. Both bands essentially changed the way a generation of kids saw the world simply by writing clever pop songs which somehow made the city they grew up seem at once the loneliest and most exhilarating place on the planet.
While County Durham’s Martha may not yet have had as a momentous an impact on popular culture as the aforementioned two bands, to me their debut album Courting Strong paints just as vivid a picture of growing up in the pit village of Pity Me as their forebears did with reference to Sheffield. Their songs are at once clever but not smart-arsed, fun but completely serious, catchy but lusciously enriching.
Martha are one of the most thrilling and likeable bands to emerge from the North East in god knows how many years. I really could spend hours extolling the virtues of this absolute triumph of a record, but perhaps it’s best to follow the good example set by Martha and know when to keep your sentiments simple. Courting Strong is just fantastic.
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"Courting Strong" is the debut full length studio album from UK pop-punk band Martha, released May 26, 2014 through Fortuna Pop! in the UK and on Salinas Records in the USA.
Recorded by Matthew Johnson at Suburban Home Studios, Leeds.
User Album Review
From a.review by drowned in sound.
Many would argue that the concept of bands writing songs about growing in the grim old north is a tired one, a path trodden so heavily down the years that there’s precious little of interest left for anyone to write about the subject.Two big examples in the shape of Pulp and Arctic Monkeys spring to mind. Both bands essentially changed the way a generation of kids saw the world simply by writing clever pop songs which somehow made the city they grew up seem at once the loneliest and most exhilarating place on the planet.
While County Durham’s Martha may not yet have had as a momentous an impact on popular culture as the aforementioned two bands, to me their debut album Courting Strong paints just as vivid a picture of growing up in the pit village of Pity Me as their forebears did with reference to Sheffield. Their songs are at once clever but not smart-arsed, fun but completely serious, catchy but lusciously enriching.
Martha are one of the most thrilling and likeable bands to emerge from the North East in god knows how many years. I really could spend hours extolling the virtues of this absolute triumph of a record, but perhaps it’s best to follow the good example set by Martha and know when to keep your sentiments simple. Courting Strong is just fantastic.
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