Sprints – All That Is Over: New Music Friday

Artwork for the Sprints album All That Is Over

Sprints have released their second studio album on New Music Friday – revisit Live4ever’s 4* review and stream ‘All That Is Over’ right here.

Sprints singer Karla Chubb has, like many of us, stared in the abyss of modern living, considered her response carefully and decided: ‘I could not give less of a fuck’.

OK, so there’s context from which that quote has been extracted, even if it sounds such incredibly good advice.

The background was her affirmation that Sprints had transformed themselves during 2024, their debut Letter To Self gathering them critical acclaim and in turn real momentum.

Not the first new Irish band to revitalise post punk in recent years, during it they confidently survived the sudden departure of original guitarist Colm O’ Reilly, to be replaced by Zac Stephenson and, as Chubb declares, worked on building the togetherness that most artists need to succeed on their own terms.

Those methods, by her own volition, are defined by writing and recording primarily to suit themselves.

Produced as was its predecessor by Daniel Fox of Gilla Band, All That Is Over has its roots in sensory overload.

Far from being a difficult second album – if such a thing even exists now – the singer found herself in the midst instead of a creative tsunami, a process which took place just as a long-term relationship also disintegrated.

Looking outward, war, sociopathy, dysfunction and pre-apocalyptic rage were all muses.

Click here for Live4ever’s review in full