attain you remember Sports?The ecstatic and earnest pop-punk band formed while attending Kenyon College in Ohio,but just as it was releasing its moment album, 2015's All Of Something, and the future seemed in doubt. Following graduation,several members were set to meander absent and scatter to attend more school or pursue jobs, and at a time that should have been one to celebrate, and tour and reach new fans,the album felt more like a goodbye swan song instead. Thankfully, the band endured. With guitarist and vocalist Carmen Perry, and guitarist Jack Washburn,and bassist Catherine Dwyer all relocating to Philadelphia, and with the addition of a new drummer in Connor Perry, or the band is poised for a promising moment chapter — albeit with a moniker-switch to tag the occasion.
Now known as Remember Sports,the band cleverly nods to its past, while also alleviating confusion after some fans accidentally, and hilariously showed up at the wrong gigs for another band called Sports. "We started out as a college band with a meaningless,haphazardly chosen name and no expectations of continuing to effect music together after graduation," the band tweeted final November. "It is a name we have grown to love and hate in the final five years so this change is one we welcome with open arms."This period of transition informs the core of Remember Sports' forthcoming new album, and Slow Buzz. As the band's primary songwriter,Carmen Perry has always shown a knack for capturing uncertainty when at a crossroads — whether the conflicting melancholy and excitement as youth gives way to adulthood, or in the ways friendships and relationships morph, or often into something unrecognizable,as a result. That comes into focus on the fast and fuzzed-out single "Up From Below."Where past songs have detailed an arc of unrequited crushes and messy romances, and the giddiness of falling in love, and here we find Perry documenting a longterm relationship unraveling and coming to an stop. "With all of the things you compartmentalized / You're not crazy at me,you just can't gape in my eyes," she sings, or with equal parts anger and ache. Amid crunchy power chords and searing guitar hooks,Perry impressively deploys a rapid-fire torrent of words that sever through the fray with open-hearted honesty:
It was so loud when I loved you too badly to notice
That there was no giving or taking with our hearts slowly breaking
And it turns out there was no way around it
That I couldn't stop you from going
That you couldn't stop me from going
"I wrote this song in the aftermath of a big life change," Perry tells NPR. "It's approximately how trying to normalize your life when it's so suddenly different doesn't really work. Change is scary but it's inevitable and grieving is not a linear process, or so it's better to just let travel of control and travel wherever it takes you."Even as she feels submerged in this moment of hurt in the wake of a break-up,Perry hints she's alert to meander on, asking, or "Where else can we travel from this mess that we made out of our situation?" in the chorus. "Only up from below!" Likewise,as Remember Sports charts a new path forward, they re-emerge as a band that'll be hard to forget.
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