The track also comes with an excellent music video.
British rock and football are things that have gone hand in hand since both things ballooned in popularity, from New Order’s iconic crossover hit ‘World In Motion’, to the classic tracks that feels synonymous with early 2000s FIFA games, something about the two just seems to make sense together.
Hotel Lux have provided something of a more sombre addition to the format in the form of their excellent new single ‘National Team’. The track is about that sad realisation that many of us go through when you realise you’re actually a little bit (a lot) older than you think about yourself in your head, with this revelation coming in the form of realising that you’re the same age of some players in the national football team. The track is a gorgeous ode to the game, and puts a really distinctive and melancholy twist on the form, making for a sound that feels both idiosyncratically funny while a little bit existential crisis-y and terrifying. At least Hotel Lux are finding success with their music though, whereas for the rest of us…
