Sports Team announce new album ‘Gulp’ and share frenetic single ‘R Entertainment’

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Sports Team have announced plans to release their second album ‘Gulp’ and shared the first taster from the record, ‘R Entertainment’ – listen below.The announcement comes swiftly after the band hinted at the release of new music yesterday (March 28).They also shared a screenshot of an email on Twitter earlier this month, the subject of which was “Album masters from Randy”.

The caption of the post read: “Hits only. New music before the month’s out.”Sports Team have now announced that their second album, ‘Gulp’, will be out on July 22 via Island Records and shared their new single, which you can listen to below.Speaking about the track, Sports Team said ‘R Entertainment’ explores the “packaging down of all human experience into entertainment, prompted by the infinite scroll through social feeds and the manic formlessness of the images we are hit with every day.

Graphic news interrupted by ads for season 17 of The Bodyguard, news as a rubbernecking, passively waiting for the next drop of horror as we flick through recipes”.The band have also revealed the artwork and full tracklist for their new album, both of which you can view below.It is available to pre-order now on vinyl, CD and cassette here.The full tracklisting for ‘Gulp’ is as follows:Sports Team’s last album was their debut release, 2020’s ‘Deep Down Happy’.