This Week’s Model — Sprints, “Trickle Down”

“Trickle Down,” the new single from the Irish band Sprints, opens with a throbbing guitar riff and frontwoman Karla Chubb asking “Has anyone tried to explain trickle down economics to you in a bar?” with a hearty dose of Kat Hanna–style swingy insolence. It was just over a month ago that the group released a deliriously good cover of a Le Tigre song, so why not cannonball straight into making an original that open-heartedly draws from the rebel girl‘s style.

The song roars, soars, and rumbles as Chubb keeps snarling out real truth: “They’re calling it free speech, it’s free hate, racism disguised as nationalism/ A home that’s a tax haven, house crisis, humanity crisis/ Don’t even mention the midlife crisis/ Oh and did I forget that we’re destroying the environment and the fucking world is gonna end?” It’s protest rock for a new generation, and it arrives just in the nick of time.

“Trickle Down” can be purchased on Sprints’ bandcamp page.


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