Sports Team share “a love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night” with raucous new single ‘Billy’

Sports Team have shared lively new single ‘Billy’, which they describe as a “love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night”. READ MORE: Sports Team: “We’ve got to the point where we’re just inevitable” The single marks the first new music from the Mercury Prize-nominated indie stars since they dropped their third album ‘Boys These Days’ last May, and followed it up with the wistful single ‘Medium Machine’. In the track, frontman Alex Rice and co. lean into the similar infectious, soul-tinged melodies, but add new elements of grit and jagged guitar riffs to make it one of their most lively and raucous songs since their 2020 debut album ‘Deep Down Happy’. “It’s a love letter to getting desperately, insanely drunk at a carpeted pub on a Tuesday night,” says songwriter Rob Knaggs. “We recorded it live at RAK studios over the first weeks of summer with Seth Evans and Adele Phillips. It felt like a return to how we made the first album. Fast, and loose and loud.” “Fuck you billy/ Where is this going,” Rice sings, building towards the charismatic chorus. “You know your dad’s at the bar/ And he keeps calling for shots/The lights in the bathroom are...