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Boys These Days

Sports Team

Boys These Days

Third album from the London-based six-piece led by Alex Rice

ADM rating[?]

7.2

Label
Bright Antenna
UK Release date
23/05/2025
US Release date
23/05/2025
  1. 9.0 |   Far Out

    For a band that began as two kids fascinated by experimenting with sound, they’ve transformed themselves into two of the most adept composers of the modern era, and this may well be one of their greatest achievements to date
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  2. 8.0 |   The Independent

    Sports Team might be singing about life’s limited options, but their sonic ones vastly overcompensate
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  3. 8.0 |   DIY

    Skewering the absurdities of modern British life atop a backdrop of good old-fashioned guitar music
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  4. 8.0 |   Dork

    This might be the most Sports Team they’ve ever sounded, and somehow, it’s also the best
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  5. 8.0 |   XS Noize

    A sharp, funny, and sometimes sobering soundtrack to young adulthood in freefall
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  6. 8.0 |   NME

    The London indie cult heroes swap the mosh pit for old school pop and country-tinged rock on a typically satirical third album
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  7. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    Sports Team are smart band incorporating bits and pieces of past music they love into their own modern sound and dryly funny lyrical point of view
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  8. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    Their kaleidoscopic songwriting and shotgun use of styles mirror the confusion of just how weird the world has become, and somehow their surrealism makes sense of it all
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  9. 7.1 |   Spectrum Culture

    Glum assessments of modernity and mundanity are leavened by both humor that mostly lands and colorful music on an album that sounds unlike Sports Team’s last two LPs
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  10. 5.7 |   Paste Magazine

    The London sextet’s latest LP pivots from post-punk to a warm, radio-friendly rock sound that’s pillowy, soft, and non-threatening
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  11. 4.0 |   The Arts Desk

    Their songs are often ironic observations of the world they’re perceived to inhabit
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