Living with Secrets

Limited twelve inch vinyl pressing. Bad Sports return with a jaw-dropping release. While the band hasn't released anything in a couple of years, the individual members have been anything but idle during that time. Orville Neely continues his slow takeover of the world with rock juggernauts OBN IIIs (who have released two albums in the past two years), while Daniel Fried and Gregory Rutherford's band Video got signed to Jack White's label Third Man Records, and has been touring ever since. The pair has also been touring a ton as one half of Radioactivity, who released the stunning Silent Kill on Dirtnap last year. Originally conceived as a series of three singles, the band and label realized that the individual seven songs worked as one piece. Living With Secrets is another step forward for Bad Sports - moving away from both the ebullient punk/power pop of 2011's Kings Of The Weekend and the anything-goes grimy punk of 2014's Bras, this EP is their darkest, most powerful, and weirdest. The lyrics are bleak and desperate, but the music is more dangerously catchy than ever.