The Courettes are an explosive garage rock duo from Denmark and Brazil comprising Flavia Couri (Vox, Guitar) and Martin Couri (Drums, Vox). They have been highly praised by the world’s coolest music magazines. Their first single for Damaged Goods, ‘Want You! Like A Cigarette’, was released in 2020 in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic and received airplay on BBC6 Music in the UK and spins at P6Beat and P4 in Denmark. “This extraordinary 45 marries a super-charged pop top side to a charging, rampaging flip” wrote Kieron Tyler (MOJO). A brand new single, ‘Hop The Twig’, followed in Spring 2021.
Since the blasting debut album Here are the Courettes (Sounds of Subterrania, Germany, 2015), the explosive single ‘Boom! Dynamite!’ (Bachelor Records, Austria, 2016), the thrilling single ‘Hoodoo Hop’, a split with Powersolo (Sounds of Subterrania, Germany, 2017), a shaking live album Alive from Tambourine Studios (Chaputa Records, Portugal, 2017), and the brilliant second album, We Are The Courettes (Sounds of Subterrania, Germany, 2015). Here Are The Courettes and We Are The Courettes were remastered and reissued with new artwork by Damaged Goods Records in July 2021.
Back In Mono, the duo’s third album was released by Damaged Goods Records in October 2021, along with 7” single ‘R.I.N.G.O.’. The album was mixed in Japan by Wall of Sound aficionado Seike Sato and shows the band in top form, with great song writing and Spector-esque arrangements. The album also see them add broader nuances, influences and sound qualities to their garage rock recipe. The tunes are teen-trash-tragedy garage meets The Ronettes and The Ramones in Gold Star Studios’ echo chamber. Fuzz guitars, loud drums, trashy pianos, jingle bells, tambourines and three-minute dance floor garage killers where a Wall of Sound blasts the songs out of the speakers! The album has featured in several high profile albums of the year lists.
The Courettes toured the UK in October 2021 playing a staggering back-to-back 17 shows, picking up rave reviews along the way both online and in all the major UK music magazines. A further single ‘Misfits & Freaks’ was released in February 2022. The Courettes returned to the UK for more live dates and a Marc Riley BBC 6 Music session in May/June 2022.
To coincide with the band’s summer UK tour in 2022, we released a mini album Back In Mono (B-sides & Outtakes) on 10″ vinyl and CD. This features three new smash tunes – ‘Daydream’, ‘Tough Like That’, and ‘Talking About My Baby’. Also included are three non-album B-sides, freshly spruced up with new instrumentation and exclusive to this release. Making up the eight tracks is the inclusion is a Courettes rarity, ‘So What’, which was previously only available on a split single with The Jackets released on Chaputa Records back in January. Their latest single ‘Shake’ was released in February 2024.
