Sprints Announce Debut Album 'Letter To Self' With New Single Up And Comer
Tuesday, 05 September 2023
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Niamh Barry
Sprints have announced their debut album.
The Dublin four-piece will release 'Letter To Self' on January 5 via German label City Slang Records, who they signed with at the start of 2023.
To accompany the news, the band have shared a new track called Up And Comer, which offers noisy, garage-punk energy through a whirlwind of visceral, gritty guitars and cathartic vocals. It follows the previously released album singles Adore Adore Adore and Literary Mind. Vocalist Karla Chubb said:
"Up And Comer is a pretty dry take on a fear and self consciousness that has been ruminating in me since I picked up an instrument. This innate fear that maybe I would always be 'good for a girl', but would I ever actually be great? It's an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I've been fed by others, as well my own imposter syndrome.
"It's a song that takes aim at the idea that some of these traits and behaviours may almost be hereditary, and instead of letting that continue to hold me back, finally break free of the expected, embrace the anger and let it rip. The only way is forward."
The group have also confirmed new tour dates for 2024, including gigs across the UK and Ireland in the spring. Tickets go on sale at 10am on Thursday (September 7).
The new run of performances is in addition to their sold-out shows in London and Dublin this October, and their date supporting Suede at London's O2 Academy Brixton on December 16.
'Letter To Self' tracklist:
1. Ticking
2. Heavy
3. Cathedral
4. Shaking Their Heads
5. Adore Adore Adore
6. Shadow Of A Doubt
7. Can't Get Enough Of It
8. Literary Mind
9. Wreck (A Mess)
10. Up And Comer
11. Letter To Self
Sprints Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Wed October 04 2023 - LONDON Scala
Fri October 06 2023 - DUBLIN Button Factory
Wed April 03 2024 - LONDON Heaven
Fri April 05 2024 - BIRMINGHAM Actress and Bishop
Sat April 06 2024 - MANCHESTER White Hotel
Sun April 07 2024 - GLASGOW King Tuts
Tue April 09 2024 - BRIGHTON Patterns
Thu April 11 2024 - BRISTOL Thekla
Sat April 13 2024 - NOTTINGHAM Bodega Social Club
Sun April 14 2024 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Thu April 18 2024 - LIMERICK Dolans
Fri April 19 2024 - GALWAY Roisin Dubh
Sat April 20 2024 - BELFAST Ulster Sports Club
Thu April 25 2024 - CORK Coughlands
Fri April 26 2024 - LISTOWEL Mike The Pies
Fri May 03 2024 - DUBLIN Button Factory
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