Sprints have channelled “the frustration of a generation stuck in ‘wait mode’ while everything burns” on their new single ‘Trickle Down’ – check it out below.
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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.”
Check it out below:
NME gave ‘All That Is Over’ three stars, and said that while much of the experimentation and differentiation on this record was promising, “its weakness tends to be exposed on tracks that are more indebted to the Sprints formula.
“Two driving and heavy tracks, ‘Descartes’ and ‘Need’, come one after another on the first side of the album. On these, the tumbling drums and piercing guitars feel held back by the more measured songwriting, and one may find themself longing for the pure, visceral, incendiary blasts that Sprints have previously done so well.”
Sprints are currently on tour across Europe until mid-April. Their next show in the UK will be at Bearded Theory at Derby’s Catton Park at the end of May, and they will be headlining the inaugural Bulletproof Festival in London this June. The Dublin quartet will also be performing at this year’s 2000trees.