UK art rockers SPORTS TEAM
join DEW PROCESS,
release new single
‘Fishing’
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“The band reinvigorating UK indie”
– NME
“A reminder of why indie made it back from the brink, loaded with both earworms and emotion”
– The Guardian
“Sports Team should be your new favourite band”
– Annie Mac, Radio One
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LISTEN TO ‘FISHING’ HERE
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UK indie art rockers Sports Team today share their brand-new single ‘Fishing,’ via their new Australian label, Dew Process.
The single premiered last night as Annie Mac’s famed BBC Radio 1 show. The frenetic track has become a live favourite, with the band having recently completed a full slate of UK and EU festivals, as well as series of their first-ever US dates.
The London six-piece met at uni in 2017 and have since become part of the UK guitar music revival. They swiftly made a name for themselves on the back of visceral, erratic live shows – a feature that has remained their hallmark. Their debut EP Winter Nets was produced by Dave McCracken (Ian Brown, Depeche Mode), and released in January 2018, and served as a darkly humorous introduction to their weird world, channelling lyrical cynicism that touches on young professionals and provincial UK clichés.
The ensuing 12 months were good to the band, with sold out shows, the formation of their own label (Holm Front) and follow up single, ‘Kutcher,’ which was recorded with renowned producer Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, The Drones, Mess Hall) and named BBC Radio 1’s Hottest Record in the World.
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The band went on to record their second EP, Keep Walking, with Reid, and from there went on to build momentum to sell out 1,500 capacity venues in the UK – even without a full LP under their belts. However, that’s no surprise, as it’s the stage where Sports Team really feel most at home, as frontman Alex Rice declares;
“The songs are written to be a spectacle live. That’s where you’ve got to hear them, front row, with most of the parts played wrong. No one’s doing it better”
The band’s most recent single, ‘Here It Comes Again,’ took things up a gear once again, cementing the band as one of the UK’s most important rising rock acts, quickly amassing over 400,000 streams.
‘Fishing,’ once again produced by Reid, is now the first track to come from the band’s as-of-yet untitled debut album, set for release in 2020.
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