Sports Team - Deep Down Happy (2020) [Official Digital Download]

From the very beginning, Sports Team have confounded expectations. Putting on gigs that seemed foolishly out of their reach when they had just the one EP to their name (before going on to sell those shows out against all the odds), their journey thus far has been a gloriously messy trip of seemingly stupid decisions, underdog heroism and pure passion, filling a gap in the lives of many bored and disenfranchised indie fans. On Sports Team’s debut album ‘Deep Down Happy’, this phase appears to be over — this is the sound of a band who are done being the underdogs.

These 12 tracks are a furious, funny flag in the ground from a band who make absolutely no bones about who they are. “I wanna be a lawyer, or someone who hunts foxes,” they wink on opener ‘Lander’, reeling off a list of the kind of unfashionable middle-class British towns they hail from. On recent single ‘Here’s The Thing’ they take the form of a conservative character laying out his flawed manifesto, before labelling it all “lies, lies, lies”.

“Everyone thinks you need to act like a downtrodden band,” frontman Alex Rice told NME last year as he addressed the criticism the band have received for wearing their middle-class upbringing and privilege on their sleeves. Across ‘Deep Down Happy’ Sports Team accept and acknowledge these undeniable facts, while also biting back at those they grew up amongst and were told they looked and sounded like, cathartically turning them into caricatures and figures of ridicule.

TRACKLIST

1. Sports Team - Lander
2. Sports Team - Here It Comes Again
3. Sports Team - Going Soft
4. Sports Team - Camel Crew
5. Sports Team - Long Hot Summer
6. Sports Team - Feels Like Fun
7. Sports Team - Here's The Thing
8. Sports Team - The Races
9. Sports Team - Born Sugar
10. Sports Team - Fishing
11. Sports Team - Kutcher
12. Sports Team - Stations Of The Cross



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