London indie rock band Sports Team have announced the release of their sophomore studio album 'GULP!'.
The follow-up to their 2020's debut album Deep Down Happy, will be released on Friday 22nd July 2022 via Island Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Signposting a bold and ambitious new era for the band, Sports Team explain that new single ‘R Entertainment’ explores “The packaging down of all human experience into entertainment, prompted by the infinite scroll through social feeds and the manic formlessness of the images we are hit with every day. Graphic news interrupted by ads for season 17 of The Bodyguard, news as a rubbernecking, passively waiting for the next drop of horror as we flick through recipes.”
From the band: Well, this is it. Another year, another dollar. We’re back with another album of pumped-up, market-ready indie rock (Plus Zinc!)! So, slip out of your Birkenstock clogs and into something a little less comfortable. An opening salvo for the apocalypse, ‘Gulp!’ Is Nostradamus with a fuzz pedal, Alex Joes doing slam poetry in the last wetherspoons standing after it all goes up in flames. It’s a trojan horse of happy, radio-ready indie rock, but don’t be fooled. The archangels come down from heaven to tell of the GOOD NEWS and are promptly baton-charged. The apocalypse begins and is largely lost in the background hum of instant-gratification, isotonic sports drinks and the weather. You can’t eat your NFTs in the nuclear winter, so grab your colleagues tight and join us in a song. All together now…"
Check out the album's tracklist and watch the video for "R Entertainment" below.
GULP! Tracklisting:
01. The Game
02. Dig!
03. The Drop
04. Cool It Kid
05. Unstuck
06. R Entertainment
07. Kool Aid
08. Getting Better
09. Fingers
10. Light Industry
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