Falcon

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The band released their first video album, titled Live at Manchester MEN Arena, in December 2011, which had been filmed at the Manchester arena in December 2010. Over the next few months, they played at various festivals, leading up to another UK tour in late 2010, with support from Miles Kane and I Am Kloot. The band promoted the album with two tours of the UK, shortly after its release, and one near the end of 2008. Jude" noch ein Britpop-Album mit einer Neigung zum Britrock, vermisse ich bei "Falcon" eben diese Neigung.Though she added that "too much soul-baring is as bad as too many putdowns; maybe next time the band will find some balance between the extremes of this album" and the previous. The song was released as the lead single from the album 11 days later; the CD edition included "I Never Wanted To". The album reached number six in the UK, after selling 24,000 copies in the first week of its release. The rock balladry of "Cameo Brooch" is followed by "Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips", a love song detailing a long distance relationship that spans 6,000 miles, incorporating rhythms used by Franz Ferdinand.

AllMusic reviewer Heather Phares said Buller "helped them slows things down and take them more seriously" as musicians. Michael Bauer mixed all of the recordings, bar "Take Over the World", which was done by Jeremy Wheatley. That Fray’s savvy, gritty-funny lyrics will be compared to Alex Turner’s just emphasises that arch couplets are so rare in pop today that we only have one reference point outside Moz himself. Music reviewer Julian Marszalek wrote that "what hampers" the album was the "small and obvious palette that they paint from - a soupcon of Oasis here, a dab of Elbow there and some typical indie garnishes all over the place".For seven weeks from August 2009, the band recorded their follow-up at ICP studios in Brussels, Belgium. Chris Roberts of BBC Music felt there was "enough musical flourishes and pining ballads to earn the band the Elbow comparisons they blatantly desire".

Take Over the World" straddles between the indie sound of the band's past work and balladry, evoking " Viva la Vida" (2008) by Coldplay during its chorus sections. Lullaby" and "Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips" were released as a Double A-Side single in December 2010. Falcon was released on 22 February 2010; a two-disc deluxe edition was also released, featuring "Revolver", "Bojangles", "You're the Man", "Meanwhile Back at the Ranch" and "Forget the Weight of the World". Following this, the band ended the year with two one-off gigs, one at Parr Hall in Warrington and the second at the Central Convention Complex in Manchester with support from Buzzcocks and the Whip. The Rest of the World Has Gone Home" deals with the theme of loneliness in the style of Babyshambles, while "Sycophant" is a rock song that touches on folk and psychedelia.The somewhat bitty first album of St Jude has progressed into this second outing and things have changed for the better. Forget preconceptions of boorish Manc laddishness – Morrissey’s championing of this fast-rising band is beginning to make sense. While touring the US, the Courteeners wrote new material on their tour bus with guitars, shakers and keyboards.

Between June and August 2010, the band performed at the Glastonbury, Isle of Wight, T in the Park, iTunes, Oxegen, Underage and V Festivals. Läßt man sich darauf ein, dass die Courteeners "nur" noch Popmusik machen, wird man ihnen zugestehen müssen, das "Falcon" eine durchaus gute Pop-CD ist. The Guardian editor Will Dean wrote that "most things fall between the cracks – either sub- Guy Garvey/ Conor Oberst ballads [. The Electric Lick EP was released on 5 December 2010, consisting of two new songs "Three Months" and "Swear Down", a cover of " Zero" (2009) by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, in addition to "Lullaby" and "Scratch Your Name Upon My Lips"; the ten-inch vinyl edition included .Wie anscheinend auch schon im Voralbum stecke eine Prise Franz Ferdinand drin, einige Lieder erinnerten mich an die kürzlich hochgeschossenen Glasvegas. You Overdid It Doll" charted at number 24 in Scotland and number 28 in the UK, while "Take Over the World" peaked at number 114 in the UK. Phares theorised the shift in sound "comes from a need for the band to prove that there’s more to their sound than breathless rock and sneering lyrics". K. press to the leading lights of three previous waves of Mancunian Brit-pop: the Smiths, the Stone Roses, and Oasis. You Overdid It Doll" was released as the lead single from Falcon in February 2010, which was then promoted with a tour of the UK the following month.