We’ve only just begun our annual autumnal romance, but SPRINTS are making us look ahead to 2024. And that’s well alright, as the Irish punk band seem to make good on promises.
Today (September 5), SPRINTS unleash the raw and raging “Up and Comer,” a visceral punk song that’s all about shaking off the doubt other are keen to put into our headspaces. It’ll be included on the Dublin quartet’s forthcoming debut album, Letter To Self, which arrives January 5. Hello, New Year.
Singer, guitarist, and lead songwriter Karla Chubb says this about SPRINTS’ debut record: “[It’s] a deeply personal and autobiographical album lyrically and in its key themes, while sonically it explores a space inspired by our love of early ’80s gothic, ’90s noise rock and more modern influences. It revisits our most vulnerable moments and imbues them with visceral garage-punk. It aims to take the things that are considered inherently negative — feelings of anxiety, anger and rage, and turning them into a positive. Using our experiences to fuel us and pouring them into a positive outlet. It’s cathartic, it’s honest, it’s raw.”
And “Up and Comer” sets a noisy tone for what’s ahead, serving as a blistering attack on confronting imposter syndrome. Chubb adds: “It’s an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I’ve been fed by others. It’s a song that takes aim at these ideas, and instead of letting them continue to hold me back, sees me finally break free of the expected, embrace the anger and let it rip.”
SPRINTS are playing Baby’s All Right in New York City on November 15, their North American debut, with more stateside dates set to be announced soon. Whether it’s on this or that side of the calendar remains to be seen.
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