Sports' story has come full circle. After achieving massive viral success, they've released three critically acclaimed albums, each one capturing the essence of indie pop. Pool Girl's music hovers between sun-bleached memories and sharply present moments.
Sports have come full circle. The Oklahoma band hinges on the friendship between Christian Theriot and Cale Chronister, two musicians who met as kids and instinctively bonded. Finding mammoth viral success, they’ve released three acclaimed albums, each one distilling their indie pop elixir.
Small town heroes who are taking on the world, Sports credit their Tulsa upbringing as fostering their mindset. A world apart from the bright lights of Los Angeles or New York, the band had to work hard to make their mark. “The odds of us meeting, having the same interests, forming a band, and making it out to have a career... it’s like, how did that happen?” Christian marvels.
Their fourth full-length album, titled SPORTS, was released on February 20th, 2025, and marks a real milestone in their career: it's the first record they produced, wrote, and recorded entirely on their own — in a studio they built from scratch in their hometown of Tulsa. The twelve-track album moves between shimmering, melodic pop and rawer, more distorted sounds, blending indie-pop, electronic, and psychedelic influences.
Pool Girl is the solo project of artist and producer Allie Nixon, a California native whose work drifts between sun‐faded memory and sharp present tense. Raised in Carpinteria, CA, she learned piano and guitar young, growing up on her dad’s Beatles, Beach Boys and British Invasion records before finding her own world in 2010s, through the likes of Passion Pit, MGMT, Gorillaz, Beach House, Tame Impala
