All That Is Over

There’s a lyric burnt into ‘Abandon’ - the slow, searing scorch of an opening track that begins SPRINTS’ gargantuan second album ‘All That Is Over’ - that cuts to the core of the incendiary Dublin quartet right now: “I don’t grow old / I grow unrecognisable”. Not only does it kick the door down to a record that wrestles with the horrors outside and the strengths within, planting its feet in the ground and fighting for the necessity of art and hope and love amidst an incomprehensible world on fire, it also neatly winks at SPRINTS’ own thrilling trajectory. Having underlined their status as one of the UK and Ireland’s most exciting breakthrough bands with their universally-acclaimed 2024 debut ‘Letter To Self’, now vocalist and guitarist Karla Chubb, bassist Sam McCann, drummer Jack Callan and new guitarist Zac Stephenson are returning for their second act as an evolved entity: stronger, sharper and fully assured.“I think we came out of 2024 as quite literally different people and a comp