Sprints have channelled “the frustration of a generation stuck in ‘wait mode’ while everything burns” on their new single ‘Trickle Down’ The new single follows their cover of Le Tigre‘s ‘Deceptacon’, which was their first release since their second album ‘All That Is Over’.
Over the ominous buzz of the guitar line, vocalist Karla Chubb mocks ideas of trickle down economics: “Has anyone tried to explain trickle down economics to you in a bar?/I’m just waiting, my whole life is waiting/I’m just waiting for pay but losing cents on inflation,” she says. Chubb even name checks Amyl and the Sniffers frontwoman Amy Taylor – “I think I wanna give up, I wanna be Amy Taylor.”
Later, she turns her attention to the state of current politics: “They’re calling it free speech, it’s free hate, racism disguised as nationalism/A home that’s a tax haven, house crisis, humanity crisis.”
“Trickle Down” is about watching systems fail in slow motion, housing crisis, rising costs, culture wars, climate collapse, and being told to stay patient,” the band said in a press release. “It’s the frustration of a generation stuck in ‘wait mode’ while everything burns.”
SPRINTS’ new single, “Trickle Down”, is out now on cityslang and subpop.
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