Rizzle Kicks announce first album in over a decade ‘Competition Is For Losers’ with shimmering single ‘New Sport’

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Rizzle Kicks have today (November 8) announced their first album in over a decade called ‘Competition Is For Losers’ with shimmering single ‘New Sport’ – check it out below.Back in 2008, Jordan Stephens and Harley Alexander-Sulé formed Rizzle Kicks and went on to have major success throughout the 2010s with their fresh and unique take on UK rap, blending hip-hop with pop rather than the rising grime trend of the time.They scored two UK Top 10 albums (2011’s ‘Stereo Typical’ and 2013’s ‘Roaring 20s’) and two platinum singles before taking a break from the limelight in 2016 due to Alexander-Sulé being diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder.The duo will release their new album on February 14 via BMG – you can pre-order the new work here.

The latest single ‘New Sport’ follows on from comeback singles ‘Javelin’ and ‘Gumdrops’, which arrived earlier this year.Speaking to NME about their comeback in August, Alexander-Sulé revealed that the pair had been “writing for a long time, maybe three or four years on this music.

We went through different phases and versions of what this next record should sound like, but the more we wrote together, the more natural it became.

It became clear what the sound should be, and we met in the middle somewhere. That’s what ‘Javelin’ encapsulates what we’re feeling in the moment.”“There are loads of moments on the album that are pretty introspective,” Alexander-Sulé added, “but we wanted this first moment [‘Javelin’] to really capture the public and show what we represent, which is fun and joy and carefree.”Stephens said it would be easy for Rizzle Kicks “to leverage the nostalgia” and go on tour and just play the songs they are best known for.