Sports Team released their new single ‘Condensation’ on 13 September – their third album ‘Boys These Days’ is due out on 28 February 2025.
“Like a scratchcard summer, everyone’s a winner, everyone’s a winner and the pleasure’s all mine… It’s a cold snap coming… I q-q-q-quiver… so crush me like a cigarette pressed into a plastic ash tray”
New single ‘Condensation’ is classic Sports Team at their confident best. It is the second track to be revealed from the Mercury-nominated six-piece’s hotly anticipated third album ‘Boys These Days’ which is set for release on 28 February via Distiller Records and Bright Antenna. Riding hot on the heels of shimmering comeback single ‘I’m In Love (Subaru)’, ‘Condensation’ propels SPORTS TEAM into rock’n’roll’s fast lane with its swaggering riffs and undeniable hip-moving powers.
‘Condensation’ is destined to be a live favourite with Sports Team’s fervent audience. Talking about the new single, lyricist Rob Knaggs says, ‘It’s a song about sweat. We had two years away from playing live and wanted to capture the physicality of being in a packed room with people you love. At a gig or anywhere else.’
The song is released alongside a brilliant video which was written and directed by Rob Knaggs and Ben Mack of Sports Team, which Knaggs describes simply, “It’s a video about sweat.”
‘Boys These Days’ boasts some of the Sports Team’s most dynamic musical performances to date and features hand painted artwork by Rob Knaggs. While its Top 3 predecessors, Deep Down Happy (No.2 in 2020) and Gulp! (No.3 in 2022), were recorded between bouts of intensive touring, the record not only follows the London-based band’s longest absence from a stage, and a switch of label (they signed to London-based Distiller at the end of 2023, who now represent them globally alongside Bright Antenna, the band’s longstanding US label partner) but it was created via a series of near hermetically sealed sessions in Bergen, Norway with producer Matthias Tellez (Girl in Red, CMAT).
Following an exhilarating underplay show at London’s Omeara which sold out in less than 3 minutes, SPORTS TEAM will play a 10-date nationwide UK tour this autumn, kicking off in Manchester on 14 November and culminating in a show at London’s O2 Forum on 25 November.
Tour dates are:
14 th November – Manchester, New Century
15 th November – Birmingham, The Castle & Falcon
16 th November – Liverpool, Arts Club
18 th November – Sheffield, Foundry
19 th November – Glasgow, SWG320 th November – Newcastle Upon Tyne, Boiler Shop
22 nd November – Nottingham, Rescue Rooms
23 rd November – Leeds, The Wardrobe
24 th November – Bristol, The Trinity Centre
25 th November – London, O2 Forum Kentish Town
‘Boys These Days’ is available to pre-order on CD, vinyl and cassette as well as a number of exclusive limited edition formats including a box set, a signed test pressing and picture disc vinyl.
Sports Team are Alex Rice (vocals), Robert Knaggs (lyrics, backing vocals, rhythm guitar), Henry Young (lead guitar, lap steel), Oli Dewdney (bass), Al Greenwood (drums) and Ben Mack (synths, piano & percussion).
