Sports Team unveil jaunty new single, ‘The Drop’

nme.com:

Sports Team have unveiled a jaunty new single today (August 3) called ‘The Drop’ – check it out below.The latest taster of the band’s upcoming second studio album, ‘Gulp!’, the track “inspects the relentless nature of work culture”, according to a press statement.Speaking about ‘The Drop’, the band said: “It’s questioning a constant striving for achievement, never really enjoying the moments and ‘Katie dying waiting for the right time to retire’.

Today the internet told me they’ve found ‘pits on the moon where humans could comfortably live and work’, brilliant.”The band’s new album, which leans heavily on the influence of Brian Ferry, is due for release via Island Records on September 23.[VIDEO]Sports Team worked with director, filmmaker and architect A.T.

Mann on the video for ‘The Drop’, shooting over the course of two days at the Duke Of Norfolk’s weekend escape; whipping through its endless halls, while Alex Rice high-wires between its towers.

Talking about the video, Mann said: “When I stepped through the sonic journey of ‘The Drop’ I dreamed of a poet caught in his own urban web of city lights, stuck there as the mind is being lost, knowing there is only one way out – letting it all go.