Ahead of their highly anticipated first album debut, Dublin Punk-Grunge rockers SPRINTS dropped their newest single, Up and Comer. Due January next year, the album, ‘Letter To Self’,  boasts two singles currently released by the band, with Up and Comer being the most recent. The Irish four piece has gained reputation with their energetic live shows, and a steady flow of singles documents the band’s growth from their formation in 2019.

Up and Comer is a raw, impassioned homage to punk music, echoing ‘Riot grrrl’, a subcultural movement that combines feminism, punk music, and politics. Featuring the tell-tale signs of a classic up-beat punk track, fast, distorted guitars and loud vocals from the band’s lead vocalist Karla Chubb. On the track, Karla had to say: “Up And Comer is a pretty dry take on a fear and self-consciousness that has been ruminating in me since I picked up an instrument. This innate fear that maybe I would always be ‘good for a girl’, but would I ever actually be great? It’s an invisible narrative that has been constructed by the doubts and negativity I’ve been fed by others, as well my own imposter syndrome.”

The lyrics of the track take aim at the critique and limitations put upon the band, although received positively, it’s a lukewarm reception, and the band are demanding, through this forceful song, more recognition outside of just being good for an up and comer. The anger is heard and felt, and solidifies the punk genre with both lyrics and overall sound.

SPRINTS will be hitting London on October 4th and their hometown of Dublin on October 6th, before embarking on a European Tour commencing January 5th, coinciding with their album release.