“The second song is kind of like another opening track… if the first one doesn’t work, then the second one has to.”

Welcome back to Song 2, the podcast that continues to argue (no convince) that the second track on an album might just be the most important one.

This episode features a conversation Sarah Tapp had with Sprints (a little time back now) but timely, as it lands ahead of their show at Den Atelier, one of Luxembourg’s premier live venues.

The band were promoting their album All That Is Over, and what followed was a refreshingly honest look at the chaos, compromise and near-existential spirals that come with finalising a tracklist.

From vinyl-side constraints to anxiety-inducing sequencing, Sprints pull back the curtain on how albums are actually ordered, and whether track two really carries that much weight.

(image: David Wallis)