On September 26th, Dublin band SPRINTS will release their sophomore record All That Is Over on Sub Pop for North America and City Slang for the rest of the world. All That Is Over is a remarkable second effort that pushes the band’s dynamics into richer territory, finding new space and nuance while also going harder than ever.
 
Following the release of their debut single, “Descartes,“ which Stereogum calls “… a feverish slasher,” comes the release of two new singles, “Rage” and “Beg” SPRINTS frontperson, Karla Chubb, says of both singles:
 
“Rage”: “I think in the world today, it’s a lot easier to be angry than it is to help facilitate change.  People are fatigued, disillusioned - it’s understandable, but we shouldn’t be pointing the finger at those already marginalised and making them shoulder the blame. The world is full of false prophets and false promises; it’s time we call them out. Don’t let the rage bait fuel the fire and burn us all in the process.
 
Sonically, I was pretty consumed by Dandy Warhols and Viagra Boys during the writing of this album so I feel like that’s seeped its way into the subconscious of the song. The rumbling, desert, garage influence that almost feels like a tumbleweed of chaos blowing across the track in the guitars.”
 
“Beg:” “‘Beg’ is a track that represents a lot of the key motifs, themes and topics we explore across the album. Sonically, it’s a sum of all of the parts, new and old, that make up the sound of All That Is Over. Inspired originally by a line in a Vladimir Holan poem, “Beg” is written in part as a joke, a call and response to the question, “Is Karla Jesus?” that was written atop a moodboard when we were brainstorming ideas for a music video.
 
It’s tongue in cheek, it’s satirical, and it pokes fun at the idea that often it’s those in positions of power that preach their moral codes and judgments, while committing the most heinous crimes themselves. Meanwhile, the communities often under attack are just aiming to exist and to live. It’s an exploration of the self, sexuality, lust, ambition, but also my own shortcomings and the constant battle to be better.”
 
As previously announced, SPRINTS have shared EU & UK dates in support of their forthcoming All That Is Over this summer and fall, including a standout festival appearance at Glastonbury and opening performances with Bloc Party and Fontaines D.C. See below for a complete list of shows—more International dates to be announced.
 

Summer 2025
Fri. Jul. 25 - Suffolk, UK - Latitude 
Sat. Jul. 26 - Huddersfield, UK - The Parish
Sun. 27 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed 
Mon. Aug. 04 -  Leipzig, DE - Parkbühne @ 
Tue. 05 - Berlin, DE -  Zitadelle Spandau @
Thu. Aug. 14 - Charleville Mezieres, FR - Cabaret Vert 
Fri. Aug. 15 - Rotondes, LU - Congés Annulés 
Tue. Aug. 19 - Bonn, DE - Kunst!Rasen @
Fri. Aug. 20 - Stuttgart, DE - Freilichtbühne Killesberg @
Sat. Aug. 21 - Freiluftarena, AT - Graz - Freiluftarena @
Sun. Aug. 22 - Portsmouth, UK - Victorious Festival 
 
Fall 2025
Thu. Sep. 25- Dublin, IE - Tower Records
Sat. Sep.27 - Liverpool, UK - Jacaranda (Outstore at Baltic)
Sun. Sep. 28 -  Manchester, UK - Piccadilly (Outstore at Night & Day)
Mon. Sep. 29 - Brighton, UK - Resident (Outstore at Chalk),
Tue. Sep. 30  - London, UK - Rough Trade East
Wed. Oct. 01 - Bristol, UK -  Rough Trade
Thu. Oct. 02  - Kingston, UK - Banquet (Outstore at Fighting Cocks)
Fri. Oct. 03 - Berlin, DE - Rough Trade (Outstore at Mikropol)
Fri. Oct. 17 - Saint Brieuc, FR  - Carnavalorock Festival 
Sat. Oct. 18 -  Le Havre, FR  - Ouest Park Festival 
Sun. Oct. 19 - Joué-lès-Tours, FR - Le Temps Machine 
Tue. Oct. 21 - Nimes, FR - Paloma 
Wed. Oct. 22 - Lyon, FR - Marché Gare 
Thu. Oct. 23 - Etagnières VD, CH - Croc the Rock Festival 
Sun. Nov. 02 - Belfast, UK - Empire 
Thu. Nov. 06 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3 
Fri. Nov. 07 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Beckett Student Union 
Sat. Nov. 08 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall 
Mon. Nov. 10 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK  - Newcastle University Student Union (NUSU) 
Tue. Nov. 11 - Sheffield, UK - The Fondry
Wed. Nov. 12 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City 
Sat. Nov. 15 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy Bristol 
Tue. Nov. 18 - Oxford, UK - O2 Academy 1 Oxford 
Thur. Nov. 20 - Dublin, IE - Vicar Street 
 
 
March 2026
Tue. Mar. 10 – Tourcoing, FR - Grand Mix
Wed. Mar. 11 – Brussels, BE - Botanique
Thu. Mar. 12 – Amsterdam, NL -Melkweg
Tue. Mar. 17 – Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
Thu. Mar. 20 – Warsaw, PL - Voodoo
Fri. Mar. 21 – Prague, CZ - Akropolis
Mon. Mar. 24 – Zürich, CH -Bogen F
Tue. Mar. 25 – Milan, IT -Arci Bellezza
Sat. Mar. 28 – Paris, FR -Cabaret Sauvage
 
@ w/ Fontaines D.C

 
SPRINTS All That Is Over is now available to preorder on CD/LP/DSPs from Sub Pop in North America and City Slang for the rest of the world. LP orders from both labels will receive the album on limited-edition marbled coral pink vinyl (while supplies last).

SPRINTS
All That Is Over

Tracklisting:
1. Abandon
2. To The Bone
3. Descartes
4. Need
5. Beg
6. Rage
7. Something’s Gonna Happen
8. Pieces
9. Better
10. Coming Alive
11. Desire

On September 26th, Dublin band SPRINTS will release their sophomore record All That Is Over on Sub Pop for North America and City Slang for the rest of the world.
 
The groundwork that SPRINTS laid down with their 2024 debut, Letter To Self marked them as a musical triple threat amongst the alternative landscape: a visceral live band capable of selling out increasingly sizeable tours, who could earn five-star reviews and standout coverage in NME, DIY, Stereogum, Pitchfork, and PASTE. An Irish Choice Music Prize nod from critical corners but also land themselves on BBC Radio One. Throughout 2024 alone, they toured the UK, Europe, and America twice, ending the year with a celebratory, sold-out show at London’s O2 Forum Kentish Town.
 
Their new album, All That Is Over, is a remarkable second effort that pushes the band’s dynamics into richer territory, finding new space and nuance while also going harder than ever.
 
Today, the band has shared an official video, directed by Niamh Bryson, for their debut offering, “Descartes.” Inspired by a line in Rachel Cusk’s novel Outline - “Vanity is the curse of our culture” - it switches up the philosopher’s famous “I think therefore I am” into SPRINTS frontperson Karla Chubb’s own raison d’etre: “I speak so therefore I understand”. “A lot of the negativity you see in the world is rooted in vanity and the ego that your beliefs or identity are more important than somebody else’s,” she says. “‘Descartes’ explores the idea that writing for me is not just a tool to make music but a tool to process the world.” Click here to watch.
 
SPRINTS have announced EU & UK dates in support of their forthcoming All That Is Over this summer and fall, including a standout festival appearance at Glastonbury and opening performances with Bloc Party and Fontaines D.C. See below for a complete list of shows—more International dates to be announced.
 

Summer 2025
Thu. Jun. 29 - Shepton Mallet, UK - Glastonbury  
Thu. Jul. 03. - Paris, FR - Paris Philharmonie #
Fri. Jul. 04 - Amersfoort, NL - Wilde Weide  
Fri. 11 - Cheltenham, UK  - 2000trees  
Thu. 17 - Dour, BE - Dour Festival  
Fri. Jul. 18 - Herk-de-Stad, BE  - Rock Herk  
Sat. Jul. 19 - Cuxhaven, DE - Deichbrand  
Fri. Jul. 25 - Suffolk, UK - Latitude  
Sat. Jul. 26 - Huddersfield, UK - The Parish
Sun. 27 - Thirsk, UK - Deer Shed  
Mon. Aug. 04 -  Leipzig, DE - Parkbühne @   Tue. 05 - Berlin, DE -  Zitadelle Spandau @
Thu. Aug. 14 - Charleville Mezieres, FR - Cabaret Vert  
Fri. Aug. 15 - Rotondes, LU - Congés Annulés  
Tue. Aug. 19 - Bonn, DE - Kunst!Rasen @
Fri. Aug. 20 - Stuttgart, DE - Freilichtbühne Killesberg @
Sat. Aug. 21 - Freiluftarena, AT - Graz - Freiluftarena @
Sun. Aug. 22 - Portsmouth, UK - Victorious Festival  
 
Fall 2025
Fri. Oct. 17 - Saint Brieuc, FR  - Carnavalorock Festival  
Sat. Oct. 18 -  Le Havre, FR  - Ouest Park Festival  
Sun. Oct. 19 - Joué-lès-Tours, FR - Le Temps Machine  
Tue. Oct. 21 - Nimes, FR - Paloma  
Wed. Oct. 22 - Lyon, FR - Marché Gare  
Thu. Oct. 23 - Etagnières VD, CH - Croc the Rock Festival  
Sun. Nov. 02 - Belfast, UK - Empire  
Thu. Nov. 06 - Glasgow, UK - SWG3  
Fri. Nov. 07 - Leeds, UK - Leeds Beckett Student Union  
Sat. Nov. 08 - Manchester, UK - Albert Hall  
Mon. Nov. 10 - Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK  - Newcastle University Student Union (NUSU)  
Tue. Nov. 11 - Sheffield, UK - The Fondry
Wed. Nov. 12 - Nottingham, UK - Rock City  
Sat. Nov. 15 - Bristol, UK - O2 Academy Bristol  
Tue. Nov. 18 - Oxford, UK - O2 Academy 1 Oxford  
Thur. Nov. 20 - Dublin, IE - Vicar Street  
 
March 2026
Tue. Mar. 10 – Tourcoing, FR - Grand Mix
Wed. Mar. 11 – Brussels, BE - Botanique
Thu. Mar. 12 – Amsterdam, NL -Melkweg
Tue. Mar. 17 – Copenhagen, DK - Loppen
Thu. Mar. 20 – Warsaw, PL - Voodoo
Fri. Mar. 21 – Prague, CZ - Akropolis
Mon. Mar. 24 – Zürich, CH -Bogen F
Tue. Mar. 25 – Milan, IT -Arci Bellezza
Sat. Mar. 28 – Paris, FR -Cabaret Sauvage
 
# w/ Bloc Party  
@ w/ Fontaines D.C 
 

SPRINTS All That Is Over is now available to preorder on CD/LP/DSPs from Sub Pop in North America and City Slang for the rest of the world. LP orders from both labels will receive the album on a limited edition marbled coral pink vinyl (while supplies last).
 
More on All That Is Over:
All That Is Over is a remarkable record in itself - a second album that pushes the dynamics of the band into richer territory, finding new space and nuance but also going harder than ever. However there’s a potency born from the “baptism of fire” beginnings of their current line-up that infuses SPRINTS’ second with a whole new energy. “By the time we ended up working on new stuff, we’d played so many shows together that the natural chemistry me, Karla and Sam had built up over years, Zac had very quickly developed too,” Jack says.
 
Where many bands would find themselves burnt out and needing a break after such a hectic period of time, in the midst of the whirlwind, Karla found herself becoming more prolific than ever. “There was just so much happening and so much to process,” she explains. “I was going through a big break up with my partner who I’d been with for eight years; Colm had left the band; we’d really progressed into being professional musicians, and I was at the start of a new relationship. But then you’d look outside and it’s like the world has never been uglier. I was writing every day because there was so much going on.”
 
It’s into this landscape of duality and disparity, anger, ambition and a thousand feelings in between that ‘All That Is Over’ lays out its cards. Its title is taken from a lyric at the centre of ‘Beg’: an uncompromising slice of propulsive punk that seeks the cleansing of new beginnings. Written on tour buses, in soundchecks and very much in real time, it’s an album set against the backdrop of a litany of atrocities - the war in Gaza, the wildfires in LA, Trump’s executive order denying the rights of trans people - that sees SPRINTS trying to make sense of a society gone mad. (Read full bio at Sub Pop).
 

What people are saying about SPRINTS:
“This memorable and arrestingly bleak debut LP feels like a loud announcement of a striking new band (…) If you ever suspected this current wave of Irish guitar music had peaked with the likes of Fontaines D.C. and The Murder Capital, think again.” ★★★★★ NME
 
Letter to Self is a bracing, frantic record designed for both thrashing mosh pits and solo meltdowns, best heard with the volume turned up loud.“ Pitchfork
 
“One of the most exciting young rock bands in the world… one that could hold their own alongside some of their most fiercely beloved inspirations. Run, don’t walk, to hear them as soon as you can.” “Album of the Week,” Stereogum
 
“Savage art-punk from Dublin four-piece… Sprints’ debut delivers on thrilling live shows, with singer, guitarist and songwriter Karla Chubb providing a visceral fury.” 8/10, Uncut
 
“Confrontational, ferocious and bold… an unaffected and exhilarating debut album.” “Album of the Week” - 8/10, Loud & Quiet
 
“Musical exorcism at its very best, rallying against socially-imposed doubt and anxiety and – in its unique horror – finding welcome moments of inner peace.” ★★★★★ DIY
 
“Colossally exciting.” ★★★★ MOJO
 
“A red-hot debut album… Is it possible to have an album of the year contender on only the first week in? Of course it is.” 9/10, CLASH