Back with their own unique brand of glamour and controlled chaos, Sports Team have released ‘Condensation’, the second single off their upcoming album ‘Boys These Days’. Featuring fairground orchestrations and vocals that sound as though they’re drenched in lip gloss, the band’s cavorting brand of indie pop is ready to whisk us off our feet and leave us dizzy.
Sports Team’s bright, unruly guitar lines evoke the muddy fields and warm beer of British festivals, a sound that feels strangely nostalgic during the slow slide into Autumn, but which gleams in the earlier nights. The crowded, swaggering sound created by the six-strong band is newly baroque, a summons to the dancefloor as the world around us taps away through the endless stream of sex, death, and ‘Minions’ memes proffered up by social media.
Lightly sordid lyrics demand to be sung along with, lead singer Alex Rice telling us ‘I can taste the sweat dry on your face’; hot and cold images intermingle throughout. The track’s accompanying video epitomises the DIY decadence that has become the bedrock of the band’s public persona, pearl necklaces and bunches of grapes rubbing shoulders with shirts and ties. It’s an aesthetic that will soon be translated to the sweaty whir of their onstage presence, with ‘Condensation’ surely a track that wants hearing live.
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