Sports Team released their new single “Maybe When We’re 30,” a gentle euphoric anthem, celebrating coupledom at its most mundane, and drawing on sounds from Britpop to melancholic new wave.
Lyricist Rob Knaggs elaborates, “It’s a song for Brooklyn Beckham. When you start off in a band you feel like Slurms Mackenzie (the Futurama party slug). You can’t believe it’s your job to travel around the world and drink beer and make music with your friends. And then one morning you look around, and all your friends are getting married, and you think, maybe all I really want is to grow old, and get a dog, and write horrible things about Brooklyn Beckham on Facebook, and go on cruises, and have petty disputes with my neighbours about whether the council recycles cardboard.”
Sports Team stated, “the single touches on a particular brand of British couple core–mainly settling down in suburban neighborhoods and living comfortably–could be mistaken for a satire or a dismissal of this culture.” The song is “being very sincere… it’s not playing for laughs.”
“Maybe When We’re 30” will feature on Sports Team’s upcoming studio album, Boys These Days, out May 23rd on Distiller Records/Bright Antenna. Alex Rice, Oli Dewdney, Al Greenwood, Rob Knaggs, Ben Mack, and Henry Young recorded Boys These Days with producer Matias Tellez (Girl In Red, CMAT, Gracie Abrams) in his Bergen Norwegian studio.
Boys These Days is a witty and insightful examination of modern life, exploring the dissonance of our social media feeds that unleash an endless cycle upon us of porn, tragedy, war, violence, sex, money, inspirational quotes, no narrative. No unifying myth. Just “the churn” as Sports Team term it.
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).
