SPRINTERS - Struck Gold (Sealed) (LP)

This new Sprinters album is full of jangly guitars with a lovely, washed out yet engaging sound throughout. Manchester indie band Sprinters return with a brand new album. The self-titled debut released by Manchester's Icecapades label (2017) was labour of love combing elements of surf, indie rock and dream pop, on `Struck Gold' the band explore different territory and offer a much more ambitious affair. Sonically the songs are more powerful, sound more focussed and the songwriting more streamlined. The indie pop side to the band is dramatically dulled down and instead the band offer up some of their raunchiest songs to date, dialling up the noise and combing it with raucous indie rock.