Cub Sport's Tim and Sam break down their third self-titled album track by track.
00:10 'Unwinding Myself'
02:03 'Video feat. Mallrat'
04:44 'Sometimes'
06:00 'Limousine'
07:47 'Lift Me Up'
09:57 'Light II'
13:11 'Butterflies'
14:16 'Trees'
15:25 'Come Out'
17:15 'Party Pill'
18:44 'As Long As You're Happy'
20:28 'Acid Rain feat. Al Wright'
22:44 'Stars'
24:15 'I'm Not Scared'
25:04 'Summer Lover'
26:25 Reflecting on the album
27:42 Favourite song on the album

When a band releases a self-titled album (that isn’t their debut) it typically signifies they’ve either tapped out and don’t care like they used to, or they’ve undergone a creative rebirth. In the case of Cub Sport, the triple-j featured third album from Brisbane’s Cub Sport, it’s very much the latter.

“I feel like over the last year or so especially, we’ve really stepped into our identities and embraced that as individuals and that’s fed into Cub Sport as a project as well.,” frontman Tim Nelson told Ben & Liam on triple j Breakfast. “I feel like the three albums together display the whole journey, which is the most powerful thing about it. I feel like Cub Sport by Cub Sport is the true arrival.”

Glowing in poptimist tones and draped in tender synth-soul and mid-tempo RnB, Cub Sport is a loved-up record that banishes fear through a celebration identity, sexuality, and spirituality.

It isn’t just an album about coming out, but about the great things that can happen after making that scary decision, about the experience of living your best and truest life in the wake of committing to doing just that.

If you think of the band’s records as a trilogy, it tells the journey from self-doubt, to self-acceptance, to self-love. Let’s trace that arc: 2016 debut This Is Our Vice was the sound of the four-piece edging away from their indie rock roots (back before a legal dispute with Scouts Australia forced them to switch from Cub Scout to Cub Sport), with songs shaded by personal struggle (‘I’m On Fire’, ‘It Kills Me’, ‘I Feel Bad Now’).

2017’s BATS, like good second albums tend to, saw the group confidently testing new genre waters, taking in elements of gospel, soul, and plenty of synth for a largely summery atmosphere. It’s also the album that preceded the most significant turning point in the lives of frontman Tim Nelson and bandmate Sam 'Bolan' Netterfield.

Friends of eight years, they fell in love and got married – a narrative that’s well-known (and celebrated) by their fanbase but a romance the group’s music didn’t always explicitly deal with.

However, Cub Sport – a set largely written and produced by Tim Nelson in the last 18 months – makes it central. The best example of how that core romance has come full circle with the band’s identity is the evolution from 2016’s ‘Come On Mess Me Up’, which was pregnant with yearning emotion as Tim sang of his secret romance. By contrast, new single ‘Party Pill’ openly celebrates and embraces it, ret-conning their origin story with a sweet ‘n’ balmy pop number.

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