Artist:
Sports Team
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
37:00
Record Label:
Bright Antenna
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
May 23, 2025
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Sports Team
Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Total Time:
37:00
Record Label:
Bright Antenna
Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music, Spotify
Release Date
May 23, 2025
"The Entertainment Factor is supported by its audience. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission."
Find out more about this album release after the jump.
Product Description: With their first two albums, Sports Team captured the frantic, visceral thrills of their live show but they instill a sense of suave order to third effort Boys These Days. This is a record where the English indie rockers—who formed in Cambridge in 2016 with a specialism in wry, anthemic observations of Middle Britain—get their groove on by channeling the dapper ’80s stylings of Bryan Ferry and Prefab Sprout.
Seeking to make a more intricately crafted studio album without it being anything as dull as that sounds, the six-piece headed to Bergen, Norway to work with girl in red and CMAT producer Matias Tellez. The result is a record that melds the playful thrills and melodious joy of 2020’s Deep Down Happy and 2022 follow-up Gulp! with a sumptuous, soulful sound that takes in exuberant, sax-assisted indie pop (slick opener “I’m in Love (Subaru)”), Pulp-esque wistfulness (“Maybe When We’re 30”), rollicking fusions of Britpop and Morricone (“Bang Bang Bang”), and freewheeling, melody-heavy sing-alongs (“Condensation”). At their best, they sound like early-’80s Elton John as reworked by In it for the Money-era Supergrass.
As with their earlier output, though, there is razor-sharp perception lurking within all the cheeky winks to camera, and themes such as the uncertain shift from teenager to adulthood, the weaponization of nostalgia, doom-scrolling, war, and influencers with dogs all crop up over the course of these 10 tracks. In Boys These Days, Sports Team have made a grown-up pop record without losing the sense of what made them so exciting in the first place.
Seeking to make a more intricately crafted studio album without it being anything as dull as that sounds, the six-piece headed to Bergen, Norway to work with girl in red and CMAT producer Matias Tellez. The result is a record that melds the playful thrills and melodious joy of 2020’s Deep Down Happy and 2022 follow-up Gulp! with a sumptuous, soulful sound that takes in exuberant, sax-assisted indie pop (slick opener “I’m in Love (Subaru)”), Pulp-esque wistfulness (“Maybe When We’re 30”), rollicking fusions of Britpop and Morricone (“Bang Bang Bang”), and freewheeling, melody-heavy sing-alongs (“Condensation”). At their best, they sound like early-’80s Elton John as reworked by In it for the Money-era Supergrass.
As with their earlier output, though, there is razor-sharp perception lurking within all the cheeky winks to camera, and themes such as the uncertain shift from teenager to adulthood, the weaponization of nostalgia, doom-scrolling, war, and influencers with dogs all crop up over the course of these 10 tracks. In Boys These Days, Sports Team have made a grown-up pop record without losing the sense of what made them so exciting in the first place.
TRACK LIST:
1 .
I'm In Love (Subaru)
(04:02)
2 . Boys These Days (03:32)
3 . Moving Together (03:35)
4 . Condensation (03:31)
5 . Sensible (03:19)
6 . Planned Obsolescence (03:00)
7 . Bang Bang Bang (03:40)
8 . Head to Space (04:30)
9 . Bonnie (04:05)
10 .Maybe When We're 30 . (04:28)
2 . Boys These Days (03:32)
3 . Moving Together (03:35)
4 . Condensation (03:31)
5 . Sensible (03:19)
6 . Planned Obsolescence (03:00)
7 . Bang Bang Bang (03:40)
8 . Head to Space (04:30)
9 . Bonnie (04:05)
10 .Maybe When We're 30 . (04:28)
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