Sprints: All That Is Over (LOSER edition-pink marble vinyl) LP

The Sub Pop debut and hotly anticipated second album by breakout Irish punk group SPRINTS pushes the dynamics of the band into richer territory, finding new space and nuance but also going harder than ever. Stereogum labeled SPRINTS "one of the most exciting young rock bands in the world". The groundwork that SPRINTS laid down with their debut marked them out as a musical triple-threat in the alternative landscape: a visceral live band capable of selling out increasingly sizeable tours, earning five star reviews (NME, DIY, and more) and an Irish Choice Music Prize nod, while landing themselves on BBC Radio One. "All That Is Over lays out its cards in a landscape of duality and disparity, anger, ambition and a thousand feelings in between. Written on tour buses, in soundchecks and very much in real time, it's an album set against the backdrop of a litany of atrocities - the war in Gaza, the wildfires in LA, Trump's executive order denying the rights of trans people - that sees SPRINTS trying to make sense of a society gone mad.