SPRINTS share new single Better. This aurally visceral new song is taken from the band’s forthcoming new record, All That Is Over, out September 26th on Sub Pop for North America and City Slang for the rest of the world.
Better is a song that “sounds like a love song but definitely isn’t,” shares frontperson Karla Chubb. “It explores the idea not of liking someone better, but only liking them when they’re better. It’s tough, sad, but honest and frank. It’s an old demo that was brought back in conversation by Sam and backed by Zac. It’s inspired quite heavily by MBV, especially the Loveless album, and has touches of Big Dreams by Amyl and the Sniffers.”
On the accompanying video, director Niamh Bryson says –
“When I first heard ‘Better’, I couldn’t not resonate with it. The heartbreak, the intimacy and vulnerability. The slower pace. It forces you to take a moment and to sit in your emotions, as you reflect on a time when someone made you experience them. I immediately wanted to take the feeling that it gave me and create a narrative that can echo the deeply personal and yet universal experience of heartbreak.“
All That Is Over
1. Abandon
2. To The Bone
3. Descartes
4. Need
5. Beg
6. Rage
7. Something’s Gonna Happen
8. Pieces
9. Better
10. Coming Alive
11. Desire
Tour Dates
September 20th – Rome, IT – Monk
September 26th – Dublin, IE – Tower Records
September 27th – Liverpool, UK – Jacaranda (Outstore at Baltic)
September 28th – Manchester, UK – Piccadilly (Outstore at Night & Day)
September 29th – Brighton, UK – Resident (Outstore at Chalk)
September 30th – London, UK – Rough Trade East (sold out)
October 1st – Bristol, UK – Rough Trade (sold out)
October 2nd – Kingston, UK – Banquet (Outstore at Fighting Cocks) (sold out)
October 3rd – Berlin, DE – Rough Trade (Outstore at Mikropol)
October 17th – Saint Brieuc, FR – Carnavalorock Festival
October 18th – Le Havre, FR – Ouest Park Festival
October 19th – Joué-lès-Tours, FR – Le Temps Machine
October 21st – Nimes, FR – Paloma
October 22nd – Lyon, FR – Marché Gare
October 23rd – Etagnières VD, CH – Croc the Rock Festival
November 2nd – Belfast, UK – Empire Hall
November 5th – Huddersfield, UK – The Parish
November 6th – Glasgow, UK – SWG3 Galvanizers
November 7th – Leeds, UK – Leeds Beckett Student Union
November 8th – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
November 10th – Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK – Newcastle University Student Union (NUSU)
November 11th – Sheffield, UK – Foundry
November 12th – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
November 14th – London, UK – Troxy
November 15th – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy Bristol
November 18th – Oxford, UK – O2 Academy 1 Oxford
November 20th – Dublin, IE – Vicar Street