Up And Comer

SPRINTS – Irish High-Voltage Punk Turbine Scores Big Time With Standout Debut Album ‘LETTER TO SELF’

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5 January 2024


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Band: SPRINTS
Who: Irish soon-to-be-the-talk-of-the-town
post-punk turbine.

Album: LETTER TO SELF
Order info: here.


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NME: “This memorable and arrestingly bleak debut LP feels like a loud announcement of a striking new band… noise-rock ripe with melodrama. The sense of catharsis that defines ‘Letter To Self’ is formidable and powerful. This is a dynamic album that is reflective of the muddled world we find ourselves in – delivered with a fortifying sense of honesty from an essential emerging band.” Full review here. Score: 5/5.

TUTV: Today 5 January is only the first official album release day of 2024 and we already get a RAD one. These Irish indies burst with tremendous vehemence and sharp-teethed gusto. Their high-voltage jackhammers trash and slash along their build-up/break-down course. Breathtaking hullabaloo.

Schizo guitars, unrestrained bass/drum forcefulness, and Karla Chubb‘s borderline vocals combine for exorcistic flare-ups. At times, Chubb‘s unbridled intensity brings Courtney Love‘s maddening cry-outs to mind. As I said, breathtaking hullabaloo. And the cliché no fillers, all killers can’t be more accurate here. Can’t wait to see them explode next month
on stage in Antwerp.

SINGLES/CLIPS: Up And Comer / Adore Adore Adore / Shadow Of A Doubt / Heavy

– UP AND COMER –

– ADORE ADORE ADORE –

– SHADOW OF A DOUBT –

– HEAVY –

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SPRINTS – Irish High-Voltage Hit Team Explode On Their New Volcanic Single ‘UP AND COMER’

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Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant

6 September 2023

Irish soon-to-be-the-talk-of-the-town post-punk turbine SPRINTS will cause stirring waves next January when they’ll unleash their debut LP, titled Letter To Self. Pre-order info here.


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Ahead of it comes another high-voltage single, titled UP AND COMER,
the follow-up to the first one, named Adore Adore Adore.

Karla Chubb “[It’s] a pretty dry take on a fear and self consciousness that has been ruminating in me since I picked up an instrument. This innate fear that maybe I would always be ‘good for a girl’, but would I ever actually be great? It’s an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I’ve been fed by others, as well as my own imposter syndrome. It’s a song that takes aim at the idea that some of these traits and behaviours may almost be hereditary, and instead of letting that continue to hold me back, finally break free of the expected, embrace the anger and let it rip. The only way is forward.”

TUTV: Up And Comer is a quiet/Loud/quiet/Loud rollercoaster roaring its ugly head
every time the volcanic chorus attacks your stereo. Chubb‘s aggressive vocality balances somewhere between YYY’s Karen O‘s vibrant voice (the quiet parts) and explodes like early celebrity skin Courtney Love’s primal screams (the loud parts) while the band has all burners and all engines on. The electrical vehemence at work here is phenomenal.

LYRICS

I wear your name like it’s a noose around my neck, I slipped a rope just to fall right into a net
I wear a smile like it’s a runner, your despise like a badge of honour
They say she’s good for an up and comer

I swim the seas between paranoia and disbelief, I reach the surface but the air is hard to breathe
I wear a smile like it’s a runner, your despise like a badge of honour
They say she’s good for an up and comer

And if you beat her like a drum
If you beat her like a heart
I bet she’ll fire for you still
I swear to god she’ll make a start
They said she’s good for an up and comer
Can I please be an up and comer

I wear your name like it’s a noose around my neck, I spent your love like it’s money I haven’t got just yet
I wear a smile like it’s a runner, your despise like a badge of honour
They say she’s good for an up and comer

I wear a smile like it’s a runner, your despise like a badge of honour
They say she’s good for an up and comer

And if you beat her like a drum
If you beat her like a heart
I bet she’ll fire for you still
I swear to god she’ll make a start
They said she’s good for an up and comer
Can I please be an up and comer

Here we go the devil’s knocking at my door

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