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SPORTS – ” All Of Something “

Posted: September 10, 2017 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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SPORTS is a 4-5 piece basement rock band based in Philadelphia, PA. The band’s second album titled All of Something was recorded in Philadelphia with celebrated DIY producer and musician Kyle Gilbride, and was described by Rolling Stone’s Jon Dolan as “full of smart, sweetly slashing indie-rock that recalls peers like Swearin’ and Waxahatchee.” The band’s sophomore album unfurls like a flag outside a midwestern bedroom window, lifted with the air of uncertainty of those first, confusing steps of adulthood. Perry’s freckled voice, equal parts longing and hopeful, carries through with damning drums and tickling guitar solos. Each song jangles on, sometimes releasing declarative, fighting words and other times as careful as notes left on the fridge. All of Something is out now on Father/Daughter Records.
The music here is immediately recognizable right? A bunch of us who care about indie and it’s various offshoots have heard this a dozen times over and over again and that realization is weird when the first song is really slow and brooding and it might be a better anthem than the songs about crushes???

Absolutely thrilling record. The energy is wild and cute. This track specifically just has such a good chorus and some of the cutest lyrics favorite track: Getting On in Spite of You.

Songs catchy and deep at the same time, with a driving beat and a vocalist who telegraphs all the feels. Other favorite track: Get Bummed Out.

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Misses Carm & Cathro, Jimmy, Beggie, Jacko

SPORTS – ” Making It Right “

Posted: September 7, 2017 in MUSIC
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Basement rock band, SPORTS has reunited in Philadelphia, after completing college in the place where it all started for them — Gambier, Ohio. Forming in 2012, the band’s first official recordings began as a collection of demo songs recorded for Kenyon College radio station, WKCO. The demos were late redone to become their first official album, “Sunchokes” which was released in the spring of 2014.

After a period of touring beyond the Buckeye State, SPORTS went on to release their second album, All of Something in the fall of 2015 on Father/Daughter Records. The release was recorded in Philadelphia alongside noted DIY producer and musician Kyle Gilbride (Waxahatchee, Girlpool, Swearin’), and featured a fuller sound for the band. The album received critical acclaim, with Rolling Stone  calling it “full of sharp, sweet insight and heart-tugging hooks.”

Nearly two years since the release of All of Something, SPORTS is making their return with a 7” split alongside Father/Daughter label mates, Plush, out on October. 20th. The split features members Carmen Perry (vocals and guitar), Jack Washburn (guitar and vocals), Catherine Dwyer (bass) and Benji Dossetter (drums). Singles, “Making It Right” and “Calling Out” are punched up, energetic moments of sincerity, with SPORTS taking the innermost emotions that others are keen to keep rolling about in their heads and hearts and putting them to song. Fuzzy, earnest and declarative, these singles are the perfect way to hold fans over as SPORTS continues work on future new material.

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SPORTS – ” Reality TV “

Posted: November 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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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.

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SPORTS – ” The Washing Machine “

Posted: October 24, 2015 in MUSIC
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Sports are less of a “band to watch” and more of a “band to love and let go of.” Formed in Gambier, Ohio at the village’s small liberal arts school, Kenyon College, Sports self-released a short and promising LP, titled “Sunchokes”, and made it available on Bandcamp in 2014. From there, they played shows with heroes of the local and not-so-local underground, toured, and sold out of their first run of cassettes. All but one member of Sports graduated from Kenyon this past spring, and the band has since scattered across the United States with future plans obstructing their ability to continue playing together. Drummer Benji Dossetter will attend medical school in the fall, bassist James Karlin is moving to Arizona to teach Latin in a secondary school, and guitarists/vocalists Carmen Perry and Catherine Dwyer have plans to move to Philly together. Jack Washburn, who also sings and plays guitar, has another year left in Gambier, finishing his Kenyon degree. Sports won’t be able to tour their forthcoming full-length release. Sunchokes made its way out of Ohio and across the country by word-of-mouth. This new album will undoubtedly follow the same path.

Sports – All Of Something

Sports recorded All Of Something with Kyle Gilbride, who has engineered some of the most noteworthy DIY punk records in recent years and also fronts Swearin’ alongside Allison Crutchfield. Waxahatchee, All Dogs, and Girlpool are just a few of the bands that he’s worked with, and “All Of Something” harbors the same live, spontaneous sound that makes all of those other acts so appealing. After recording Sunchokes at WKCO, Kenyon College’s radio station, Sports decided that they wanted to record its follow-up in a semi-professional environment. Father/Daughter Records will release the album this coming autumn, adding Sports to a roster of like-minded though sonically dissimilar bands that include fellow Bands To Watch PWR BTTM and Diet Cig.

All of the members of Sports have side projects; Perry is also known as Addie Pray, Dwyer as Spring Onion, Dossetter as Count Lenny, and Washburn as Cry About It. Dwyer and Washburn also play together under the name Ice Cream Social. All Of Something is a starting point for a group of musicians who undoubtedly have even bigger projects to come, and this will be the record that made them.