The elusive Sports Team have released their debut single 'Stanton'. You may be asking "Who the fuck are Sports Team?". Well, we don't really know a great deal. Hailing from Harlesden in northwest London, the six-piece have been spinning the rumour mill for a while, gaining a rather large live following around London. They sold out Birthday's in Dalston last month without having a single tune online. Pretty good going that. Their live performances are becoming the stuff of legend. Front man Alex Rice combines baggy, linen suits with Jagger-esque dance moves to keep audiences coming back for more.
'Stanton' opens with chugging guitars and sludging drum beats. The accentuated tambourine adds an element of groove to a simple rhythm section. There is a sense of darkness about the instrumentation and this becomes more apparent when the vocals are introduced. Rice's vocal sounds like a young Jim Morrison with added lyrical wit. It's not long before the song intensifies with the line 'I wanna buy you a flip screen Motorola'. From here on in Sports Team bring the noise.
Recorded at an old timber yard with Dave McCraken (Ian Brown, Depeche Mode), there is no set BPM as the tempos fluctuate. The rawness of the production is the most endearing quality here, and you can really tell what the band were going for. With such a great live presence, its paramount for Sports Team to inject that live energy into their recordings and this is exactly what they have done. The way the track builds to all out chaos towards the final moments is a stroke of genius.
Released through Nice Swan Records, 'Stanton' is a fantastic debut from a band with huge potential. We can't wait to hear what Sports Team have in store for us next.
Listen to 'Stanton' below.
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