Deep Down Happy | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Sports Team |
Cover: | Sports Team - Deep Down Happy.png |
Length: | 36:34 |
Label: | Island |
Producer: | Burke Reid |
Prev Title: | Keep Walking! |
Prev Year: | 2019 |
Next Title: | Gulp! |
Next Year: | 2022 |
Deep Down Happy is the debut studio album by English alternative rock band Sports Team. It was released on 5 June 2020 under Island Records, and was nominated for the Mercury Prize 2020.[1]
On 12 June 2019, Sports Team released the first single "Here It Comes Again".[2] The second single "Fishing" was released on 12 September 2019.[3] On 19 November 2019, the third single "The Races" was released.[4] On 18 February 2020, the band announced their new album – scheduled for the original release of 3 April 2020 – along with the fourth single "Here's The Thing".[5]
On 12 June 2020, the album ranked at No. 2 on the Official Charts Company's UK Albums Chart. Sports Team lost the Number 1 spot to Lady Gaga's "Chromatica".[6] It gained No. 1 in Scotland
On 19 June 2020, the band announced a tour of the UK, scheduled for April 2021.[7]
Deep Down Happy was met with "generally favourable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 78, based on 11 reviews/. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the album 78 out of 100 from a critical consensus of 14 reviews.[8]