SPORTS TEAM Offer Saxophone-Infused Power Pop On New Album ‘BOYS THESE DAYS’
25 May 2025
Band: SPORTS TEAM
Who: Lauded indie pop-rockers
from London
Album: BOYS THESE DAYS
Released: 23rd May.
Their 3rd one.
Press info: With musical pedals to the metal and saxophones at full throttle,
the Mercury-nominated six-piece bring us their third studio album. Think Prefab
Sprout meets Roxy Music the band ally a seer-like lyrical insight with their most
dynamic musical performances to date, Sports Team are piercing the content
abyss.
This witty and insightful examination of modern life is both a critique and a celebration
of its times. ‘Boys These Days’ takes aim at everything from advertising hype to relationship dysfunction, stationed at the point where the digital tide crashes onto IRL shores, but their perspective is fuelled by immersion in that landscape as Sports Team are scrolling along with the rest of us.”
Press photo by Bartek Szmigulski
NME says: “Sonically, it’s a step up from the guitar-driven mayhem that characterised their roots, without just slapping some synths on top like many of their indie counterparts. In reality, they’ve never sounded closer to that wacky, eccentric live band down your local on a Friday night – and maybe that’s where their truest form lies.”
TUTV: ST come up with 10 orchestral, horns-infused power pop chants. Funky, punky
and hunky-dory. Effervescent and zealous Imagine Franz Ferdinand having a date with Scottish pop legends Orange Juice. Always entertaining but a bit too much of the same.
Top tracks: Boys These Days, Planned Obsolescence, Bang Bang Bang, and Head To Space.
Singles: I’m In Love (Subaru) / Bang Bang Bang
– I’M IN LOVE (SUBARU) –
– BANG BANG BANG –
ALBUM
