Irish post-punks Sprints have announced details of their upcoming second EP ‘A Modern Job’ out 11th March 2022 via Nice Swan Records. The five-track release features sardonic new single Modern Job

“Modern Job is a critique of modern existence but also an exploration of growing up queer. In your formative years, you are bombarded with media, books, news that depict what a “normal” life should be” explains singer Karla Chubb “Grow up, fall in love, get married… long live the nuclear family.”

“By contrast when you grow up queer all these ordinary things can seem extraordinary, out of reach and in some parts of the world, illegal.” she adds. “It leaves you feeling lost, excluded and confused. I wanted Modern Job to capture those feelings; chaotic energy, loneliness and longing of normality while trying to find acceptance within yourself.”

‘A Modern Job’ also features recent single How Does The Story Go? which was premiered by Steve Lamacq who praised it as “their best song yet! These guys are going to be something,”

Sprints have 14 live dates in the UK lined up this side of the New Year  before returning home for Irish dates throughout December and January. Ticket deets below.

1. How Does The Story Go?
2. Modern Job
3. Delia Smith
4. Little Fix
5. I’m In A Band

Pre-order here

Tour Dates

Oct 21st – The Waiting Room, London (sold out)
Oct 22nd – Rough Trade, Bristol
Oct 23rd – Heartbreakers, Southampton
Oct 26th – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh
Oct 27th – The Attic, Glasgow
Oct 28th – The Castle, Manchester (sold out)
Oct 30th – The Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
Oct 31st – Bootleg Social, Blackpool
Nov 2nd – Head of Steam, Newcastle
Nov 3rd – Sidney & Matilda, Sheffield
Nov 6th – Mutations Festival, Brighton
Nov 7th – Festival of Voice, Cardiff
Nov 9th – The Shipping Forecast, Liverpool
Nov 10th – Oporto, Leeds
Dec 11th – Dublin – The Grand Social – SOLD OUT
Dec 18th – Limerick – Kasbah
Jan 21st – Cork – Winthrop Avenue
Jan 22nd – Galway – Roisin Dubh
Feb 24th – Yes, Manchester
March 2nd – Moth Club, London