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Sprints offer up poignant video for new ‘All That Is Over’ single ‘Better’
The Irish quartet’s latest “sounds like a love song but definitely isn’t”.
Sprints are back with another pre-release taste of their upcoming second album ‘All That Is Over’, which is due to hit shelves on 26th September via City Slang/Sub Pop.
New cut ‘Better’ sees the band trade their signature snarling garage rock for something slower, but no less hard-hitting, drawing inspiration from My Bloody Valentine and Amyl and The Sniffers’ ‘Big Dreams’. Described by vocalist and guitarist Karla Chubb as a track that “sounds like a love song but definitely isn’t,” ‘Better’ is an old demo that band members Sam McCann and Zac Stephenson suggested revisiting, exploring the concept “not of liking someone better, but only liking them when they’re better.”
What’s more, the track has also arrived accompanied by an emotion-laden, monochrome visualiser directed by Niamh Bryson, which follows a protagonist reeling in the wake of a breakup. “When I first heard ‘Better’, I couldn’t not resonate with it. The heartbreak, the intimacy and vulnerability. The slower pace,” Bryson has said.
“It forces you to take a moment and to sit in your emotions, as you reflect on a time when someone made you experience them. I immediately wanted to take the feeling that it gave me and create a narrative that can echo the deeply personal and yet universal experience of heartbreak.”
Check it out for yourself here:
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SEPTEMBER 2025
26 Dublin, Tower Records
27 Liverpool, Jacaranda (Outstore at Baltic)
28 Manchester, Piccadilly (Outstore at Night & Day)
29 Brighton, Resident (Outstore at Chalk)
30 London, Rough Trade East
OCTOBER 2025
01 Bristol, Rough Trade
02 Kingston, Banquet (Outstore at Fighting Cocks)
03 Berlin Rough Trade (Outstore at Mikropol)
17 Saint Brieuc, Carnavalorock Festival
18 Le Havre, Ouest Park Festival
19 Joué-lès-Tours, Le Temps Machine
21 Nimes, Paloma
22 Lyon, Marché Gare
23 Etagnières VD, Croc the Rock Festival
NOVEMBER 2025
02 Belfast, Empire Hall
05 Huddersfield, The Parish
06 Glasgow, SWG3 Galvanizers
07 Leeds, Leeds Beckett Student Union
08 Manchester, Albert Hall
10 Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle University Student Union (NUSU)
11 Sheffield, Foundry
12 Nottingham Rock City
14 London, Troxy
15 Bristol, O2 Academy Bristol
18 Oxford, O2 Academy 1 Oxford
20 Dublin, Vicar Street
JANUARY 2026
28 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
30 Sanctuary, Detroit, MI
FEBRUARY 2026
01 Longboat Hall, Toronto, ON
03 The Sinclair, Boston, MA
05 Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
06 The Atlantis, Washington, DC
07 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
10 The Roxy, Los Angeles, CA
11 The Chapel, San Francisco, CA
13 Mission Theater, Portland, OR
14 The Crocodile, Seattle, WA
MARCH 2026
10 Grand Mix, Tourcoing
11 Botanique, Brussels
12 Melkweg, Amsterdam
14 Kantine, Cologne
15 Uebel & Gefahrlich, Hamburg
17 Loppen, Copenhagen
18 Metropol, Berlin
20 Voodoo, Warsaw
21 Akropolis, Prague
24 Bogen F, Zürich
25 Arci Bellezza, Milan
26 Strom, Munich
28 Cabaret Sauvage, Paris
29 Den Atelier, Luxembourg
31 Skaters Palace Cafe, Münster
APRIL 2026
01 Schlachthof, Wiesbaden
02 Club Manufaktur, Schorndorf
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