Irish band Sprints have shared new single ‘Feast’. Out now, it’s part of the band’s stellar breakout year. Debut album ‘Letter To Self’ won critical acclaim, while its anthemic songwriting raced up the charts.
In our review, CLASH wrote: With ‘Letter To Self’ Sprints have produced an album brutally honest and personal. They have not been afraid to express the feeling of being an outsider, of looking for validation, of attempting to overcome self-doubt. The human condition and thus society is complex and difficult to navigate but Sprints have not been afraid to express uncertainty and vulnerability.
And all the while they have enveloped these themes in the most glorious noise for us all to find comfort and lose ourselves in. Out now on City Slang, new single ‘Feast’ tries to queer Biblical language while zeroing in on our innermost desires. “Dark, gothic and sensual” say the band themselves, and we have no reason to doubt them – it’s another guitar blaster.
Sprints comment...
Pulling from our love of grunge and gothic, ‘Feast’ is named as such because it explores the idea of gluttony, consumption and desire, particularly when it comes to sexuality and romance. In Ireland a lot of our first conscious experience of storytelling happens to be religious, due in most parts to the interlinking of our Catholic Church and state, particularly in education. The Bible stories and fables of good, bad, morality and sin were always pressed upon us.
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