Sports Team have been one of our most played bands this year, but we’ve only mentioned them to you once. Now coming out in June, their debut album “Deep Down Happy” feels like the buzziest indie/alt album of the year, like some manic hybrid of Parquet Courts, Fontaines DC and Rolling Blackouts CF – only it’s filled with catchy riffs and academic but notstalgic nonchalance. There’s a reason these guys have sold out venues from Electric Ballroom to Kentish Town Forum with barely a couple of singles to their name.
They’ve been defined though by an increasingly cultish fanbase spawned from online community pages, making 1000s of memes, pieces of artwork and crucially turning up wherever Sports Team play – from the bands annual Margate trip (where many of the songs were written) to the living room of the group’s shared house, first in Harlesden, now Camberwell.Sessions for Deep Down Happy have been snuck in between huge tours at various London studios, including Konk and Livingston, with long-time collaborator Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) once again at the production desk. Having first worked together on the anthemic ‘Kutcher’ in 2018, the debut features Reid-produced singles ‘Here It Comes Again’, ‘The Races’ and ‘Fishing’ while also featuring a re-recording of early single and live favourite ‘Camel Crew’ – until now, only available on 2018’s Winter Nets.
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