Stepping aside from their recent upbeat trajectory, Chappaqua Wrestling acknowledge the weariness that life can bring in latest track Football.

Brighton’s Chappaqua Wrestling have been as affected as the rest of us by the events of this year; having had their touring and festival plans postponed, they’ve made recourse in the studio by penning their blistering latest single Football. Taking a more heavy-hearted approach than their previous few releases, which adopted a more happy-go-lucky sound, there’s a constant, baseline intensity upon which searing guitars and feverish vocals build upon to create a piece of work that digs deep into the emotion and psyche.

One of the band’s principal songwriters, Charlie Woods, says the following of the track:

On ‘Football’ we take one riff and develop it layer after layer, and it grows harder and harder as it moves on. On top of all the brutishness is a story of social displacement, and unease in one’s surroundings. The lyrics we recently added as a homage to our teenage years in Brighton, with some of the social-angst of that time. It features our old-Brighton friend and recent band addition John Townsend on the drums, and we feel ‘Football’ shows a hard pulse from us which hadn’t previously been captured on record.