Barns Courtney has never been the kind of artist who plays it safe, and his new live album Live and Wired, out now via Avenue A/Virgin Records, is the loudest possible proof. Recorded on tour in Paris, the record captures Courtney exactly where he thrives: on stage, unfiltered, unpredictable, and dangerously close to the edge.

To mark the release, Courtney has also dropped a live visualizer for “London Girls,” a track that perfectly sums up what makes this album tick — a room-rattling, sweat-drenched snapshot of one of modern rock’s most magnetic performers doing what he does best.

Watch the “London Girls” visualizer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdmKA_BUvsY

“This band had such unique chemistry that I had to make a live album,” Courtney said of the release. “That magic telepathy you only get once in a blue moon.”

And you can hear it. Live and Wired strips away the studio polish in favor of blown-out amps, crowd noise, bruised knuckles, and the kind of chaos that only happens in a packed room. Fan-favorite anthem “The Kids” arrives with a defiant, youthful pulse pushed all the way to the brink, Courtney’s vocals tearing through the noise alongside a crowd that sounds just as loud as he does. The feral live take of “Hands” finds him completely untamed, ripping through the song as the audience fires every word back at him.

Melodic Magazine called the album “a fiery, passionate live album that gives a raw, authentic voice and soul to Courtney’s songs that fans already know and love.” That’s a polite way of saying: this thing hits like a brick.

The release follows Courtney’s Unplugged Solo Acoustic Sessions Tour, which brought a different kind of danger to intimate rooms across North America and Europe — proof that whether he’s rattling club walls or pulling a room into dead silence with nothing but a guitar and a voice, Courtney remains a performer who makes every venue feel like it could tip over at any second.

For an artist who has survived label collapses, disappearing A&Rs, catalogs sold out from under him, years of sofa-surfing, and enough industry upheaval to bury a lesser musician, Live and Wired is a defiant reminder that the chaos didn’t kill him. It just made him louder.

Stream Live and Wired now and turn it up until the neighbors complain.