Top-shelf indie-rock where all finest indie-rock emotions — anxiety, entropy, malaise, fumbling desire, fear, rage — become the engine for sweet guitar epiphanies. for Fans of: Swearin’, Waxahatchee, Liz Phair
On their fantastic second album, All of Something, was recorded while most of the band was still attending tiny Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, singer-guitarist Carmen Perry fires out great lines like “Take my mind off the empty space in this heart of mine/And I’ll take your mind off the empty space in your bedtime” over catchy, caffeinated power-pop. Elsewhere, they turn laundry day and room cleaning into acts of heart-splitting existential drama. Sports will tour this winter but their status is up in the air — drummer Benji Dossetter is in med school in Boston, bassist James Karlin teaches Latin in Arizona and singer-guitarist Jack Washburn is a senior at Kenyon. Perry and guitarist Catherine Dwyer now live in Philadelphia where they’re working on a project together.
The band commented “It was definitely weird this summer when I was working all the time and I’d come home late at night and see all this stuff on the Internet that was really nice and I was really grateful for,” Perry says in reference to Sports’ critical success this year. “But it just felt like it wasn’t actually real. And I remember being on the phone one night with Jack, crying and being like, ‘I feel like my life is only on the Internet, and that it’s not actually real.’ Since I moved here, I’ve met more people and gone to more shows. It definitely seems to be more connected.” The excellent “Reality TV” is one of the best lo-fi bangers in a year that’s produced scores of great ones.
The Fat Angel Sings 