The Dublin band Sprints will release All That Is Over on City Slang worldwide and Sub Pop for North America on September 26th.
Relatively hot on the heels of the band’s debut album Letter To Self in January 2024, All That Is Over is announced today, with the lead single ‘Descartes’, and a music video directed by Niamh Bryson for the song.
Along with the album news there are new live shows in Dublin, Belfast and supporting the Fontaines D.C in Europe. Full dates below.
2 November – Empire, Belfast
20 November – Vicar Street, Dublin
‘Descartes’ is inspired by a line in Rachel Cusk’s novel Outline – “Vanity is the curse of our culture” – it switches up the philosopher’s famous “I think therefore I am” into SPRINTS frontperson Karla Chubb’s own raison d’etre:
“I speak so therefore I understand”.
“A lot of the negativity you see in the world is rooted in vanity and the ego that your beliefs or identity are more important than somebody else’s,” she says.
“’Descartes’ explores the idea that writing for me is not just a tool to make music but a tool to process the world.”
More on All That Is Over:
“By the time we ended up working on new stuff, we’d played so many shows together that the natural chemistry me, Karla and Sam had built up over years, Zac had very quickly developed too,” Jack says.
Where many bands would find themselves burnt out and needing a break after such a hectic period of time, in the midst of the whirlwind, Karla found herself becoming more prolific than ever. “There was just so much happening and so much to process,” she explains. “I was going through a big break up with my partner who I’d been with for eight years; Colm had left the band; we’d really progressed into being professional musicians, and I was at the start of a new relationship. But then you’d look outside and it’s like the world has never been uglier. I was writing every day because there was so much going on.”
It’s into this landscape of duality and disparity, anger, ambition and a thousand feelings in between that ‘All That Is Over’ lays out its cards. Its title is taken from a lyric at the centre of ‘Beg’: an uncompromising slice of propulsive punk that seeks the cleansing of new beginnings. Written on tour buses, in soundchecks and very much in real time, it’s an album set against the backdrop of a litany of atrocities – the war in Gaza, the wildfires in LA, Trump’s executive order denying the rights of trans people – that sees SPRINTS trying to make sense of a society gone mad.
SPRINTS All That Is Over Artwork & Tracklisting:
- Abandon
- To The Bone
- Descartes
- Need
- Beg
- Rage
- Something’s Gonna Happen
- Pieces
- Better
- Coming Alive
- Desire
Pre-order here
CD / LP / digital
Sprints Tour Dates
UK / NI / IE 2025:
02.11 – Empire Hall, Belfast, NI
06.11 – SWG3 Galvanisers, Glasgow, UK
07.11 – Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
08.11 – Albert Hall, Manchester, UK
10.11 – NUSU, Newcastle, UK
11.11 – Foundry, Sheffield, UK
12.11 – Rock City, Nottingham, UK
14.11 – Troxy, London, UK
15.11 – O2 Academy, Bristol, UK
18.11 – O2 Academy, Oxford, UK
20.11 – Vicar Street, Dublin, IE
EU 2026:
10.03 – Grand Mix, Tourcoing, FR
11.03 – Botanique, Brussels, BE
12.03 – Melkweg, Amsterdam, NL
17.03 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK
20.03 – Voodoo, Warsaw, PL
21.03 – Akropolis, Prague, CZ
24.03 – Bogen F, Zürich, CH
25.03 – Arci Bellezza, Milan, IT
28.03 – Cabaret Sauvage, Paris, FR
+ more to be announced!
2025 SUMMER DATES:
29.06 – Glastonbury, Pilton, UK
03.07 – Days Off, Paris Philharmonie, FR w/ Bloc Party
04.07 – Wilde Weide, Kraggenburg, NL
06.07 – Stendhal, Limavady, NI
11.07 – 2000trees, Cheltenham, UK
17.07 – Dour Festival, Dour, BE
18.07 – Rock Herk, Herk-de-Stad, BE
19.07 – Deichbrand. Cuxhaven, DE
25.07 – Latitude, Suffolk, UK
26.07 – The Parish, Huddersfield, UK
27.07 – Deer Shed, Thirsk, UK
04.08 – Parkbühne, Leipzig, DE w/ Fontaines D.C
05.08 – Zitadelle Spandau, DE w/ Fontaines DC
14.08 – Cabaret Vert, Charleville Mezière, FR
15.08 – Congés Annulés, Luxembourg, LU
19.08 – Kunst!Rasen, Bonn, DE w/ Fontaines D.C
20.08 – Freilichtbühne Killesberg, Stuttgart, DE w/ Fontaines D.C
21.08 – Freiluftarena, Graz, AT w/ Fontaines D.C
22.08 – Victorious, Portsmouth, UK
17.10 – Carnavalorock Festival, Saint Brieuc, FR
18.10 – Ouest Park, Le Havre, FR
19.10 – Le Temps Machine, Joué-lès-Tours, FR
21.10 – Paloma, Nimes, FR
22.10 – Marché Gare, Lyon, FR
23.10 – Croc the Rock Festival, Etagnières, CH
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
