The Medium is following up their 2024 album, City Life, with their new EP Sports! on March 5th via Earth Libraries.
Sports! is a short musical exploration of American boyhood. It navigates band members' pasts with mixed emotions, ranging from pure nostalgia and enthusiasm, to superfluous machismo headbanging.This project began back in 2020 whilst in lockdown. They began performing a power chord guitar anthem entitled, "Sports!". It's finally here, retitled "Feel The Dream", newly arranged and available to be heard with three other fresh songs to accompany its arrival.
On the surface the lyrics are all fun and games (and steroids, e.g. Gimme Some Gas) but a closer listen shows more than meets the eye. For what really is a sport? A fun way to exercise and play together? A rite of passage? A team-building activity? A series of territorial defensive rituals bordering on combat, so deeply ingrained in our ancestral DNA that people will defend their home team as fervently as they would their own country?? Who's to say.
Playing team sports was a siginificant part of their youths. They did their best to have fun collaborating in an attempt to bring new material to such a massive and universal subject known as sports!
Sports! is out everywhere on March 5th.
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