Photo Credit: Charles Belvedere
San Francisco-based indie quintet, Sporting Life, has released the video for Spoil Yr Party, which is lifted from their upcoming ‘Rivalry’ LP, out on March 10, 2015. The eleven tracks on the record draw heavily on their Brit-pop influences making the debut short and punchy, full of lush layers and instrumental hooks.
Sporting Life’s Andrew Gomez explains more about Spoil Yr Party: “The song is about the futile fight against a mundane existence: the “get up, eat, go to work, go back to bed” life. We like to think we are one big break away from escaping the average. In truth, it requires some real bravery, so many of us (& certainly I) do what the narrator does in the chorus / second verse: drink his face off, act obnoxiously at parties, surround himself with diversions, and act like he’s smarter than everyone else. It’s a celebration of the fleeting. The footage is taken from a 1980 documentary called Skateboard Madness that featured a bit on the popularity of roller-skating. The footage makes it easy to be taken in. it seems like a short documentary on a fantastic time that never existed.” Watch Spoil Yr Party below via Vimeo.
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