Sports Team Deep Down Happy 180g LP (Jawbreaker Colored Vinyl)

Sports Team - a band of six singular characters who have been variously described as one of the most raucous, electrifying and chaotic acts in the UK - release their debut album, Deep Down Happy.

Sports Team came up on the back of word of mouth live hype, drawing round-the-block queues to chaotic early gigs at The Five Bells and Moth Club before releasing any music. Recording their first EP (Winter Nets) in a converted timberyard in Hammersmith, the band have consistently set themselves apart from the acts they came up playing with, showing an intoxicating ambition, and their debut album Deep Down Happy delivers on all bold claims, and confirm their place at the head of a group of young guitar acts.

They've been defined, though, by an increasingly cultish fanbase spawned from online community pages, making 1000s of memes, pieces of artwork and crucially turning up wherever Sports Team play - from the band's annual Margate trip (where many of the songs were written) to the living room of the group's shared house. Sessions for Deep Down Happy have been snuck in between huge tours at various London studios, including Konk and Livingston, with long-time collaborator Burke Reid (Courtney Barnett, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever) once again at the production desk. Having first worked together on the anthemic "Kutcher" in 2018, the debut features Reid-produced singles "Here It Comes Again", "The Races" and "Fishing", while also featuring a re-recording of early single and live favorite "Camel Crew" - until now, only available on 2018's Winter Nets.

2020's most chaotic new band

Sports Team should be your new favourite band

Sports Team's unhinged sense of fun is refreshing and singular...utterly wonderful.