The Courteeners have today announced and released a brand new EP titled 'How Good It Was', packed full of new music.
The title track is taken from their highly anticipated fourth album 'Concrete Love', but is the only song appearing on the EP that will also be on the LP.
Available now on iTunes, it follows taster track 'Summer' which was made available earlier this month.
Liam Fray said: "With Summer we were just teasing. This is the real deal. I had the same feeling with ‘How Good It Was’ that I had with ‘Are You In Love With A Notion'. As soon as I'd written it, it just felt right. It was a perfect fit straight away. Like an APC bomber jacket. We were honoured to have members of the BBC Philharmonic and Halle orchestras play on it too, which was incredible. The other three songs were really difficult to leave off the album in all honesty. They could've easily nestled in amongst the others on ‘Concrete Love’. ‘Why Are You Still With Him?’ was written in New York a few years ago about a good friend of mine. I'm happy to be able to finally give it a good home."
The full tracklisting for the EP is as follows:
1. How Good It Was
2. Hometown One
3. Sunflower
4. Why Are You Still With Him?
As announced earlier in the year, Courteeners are to headline the Radio 1/NME Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival as well as playing at Glasgow's Bellahouston Park with The Killers, full details below.
Glasgow, Bellahouston Park – The Killers (special guests) August 19th
Reading and Leeds Festival - Radio 1/NME stage (headline) August 22nd & 23rd
The band are to announce what is promised to be their biggest UK tour later this year.
'Concrete Love' is released August 18.
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