Bloodsports, the album, will always be the one where Suede got their mojo back. bloodsports, the band, is currently the group that’s helping us get through this miserable week. Where the New York City band goes from here is anyone’s guess, but today (August 20) we’re feeling the ever-loving fuck outta the buzzy foursome’s incendiary new single “Calvin,” and not just because it vibes hard with Massachusetts’ most notable indie band.
“It’s definitely the most standard ‘rock’ song on the record, it kinda feels like a Pixies song to us,” bandleader Sam Murphy of the crunchy alt-rock cruiser. “This one was written in like an hour with a couple of simple riffs I had in my head for awhile and really hasn’t changed since. Lyrically, it takes place during a dream I had so a lot of the lines are kind of disjointed from one another and ambiguous, which I think reflects a dream state pretty well.”
It’s certainly loud enough to wake us the fuck up. “Calvin” and all its 102 seconds of noisy fury, will be featured on bloodsports’ debut album, the wonderfully titled Anything Can Be A Hammer, out digitally and on cassette and vinyl come October 17 on upstart NYC/Nashville indie label Good English Records. Color us all sorts of intrigued.