The Winter Olympics Announce 'Profit And Loss' Release Date
Monday, 03 September 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Dance punk outfit The Winter Olympics have announced that they will release their debut album ‘Profit and Loss’ through Exeter punk label Freakscene Records on October 1st.
If you’ve never been introduced to The Winter Olympics before, you should know that they’re a strange band. Playing a homemade brand of dance-punk rock and roll, they have an old-school no-budget arena rock show, and at first glance they look like they ought to be spending Saturday afternoons washing the car and doing DIY.
Instead, they’ve spent the last ten years (you read correctly) trying to put together the perfect DIY pop album. It should’ve taken a week; it should sound like shit; in the face of enormous public indifference they should probably have given up. But they didn’t. Bit-by-bit, bass player by bass player, recording in bedrooms and beneath pubs, they tried to make something unapologetically enormous. A rock album like people used to make, full of singles and big choruses, an ambitious record giddy with new sounds and ideas.
‘Profit and Loss’ is that album. Ten would-be stadium-shagging sing-alongs full of big guitar hooks, bubbling synths, and quick-witted literate lyrics. Previous singles ‘I Prefer the Early Stuff’ and ‘I Miss the Nineties’ have picked up praise and support from 6 Music, Word Magazine (RIP), John Kennedy and Art Brut, and scored the band surprisingly big radio hits in Slovakia, Luxembourg and Argentina. Dangerously addictive new single ‘Fags and Girls’ (released 24th September) sets its sights closer to home with an eye-stinging story of an old flame that can’t quite be extinguished...
You can check out the tracklisting below - keep an eye out for this record making waves this year.
‘Profit and Loss’ Tracklisting
1) Regional Showcase
2) I Prefer The Early Stuff
3) Fags And Girls
4) This is The Fourth Time (I Have Been In Your House)
5) They Launched a Probe
6) Attention All Departments
7) I Miss The Nineties
8) A Prize Every Time
9) Feeling European
10) Heavy Metal Ending
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