Backsprint

Nobody expects a country rock band from Belgrade. That's the point. Backsprint started with American country records in a Serbian apartment — Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash — played by a father who never explained why the music mattered. Then Uroš Jojić moved to Saginaw, Michigan, graduated high school there, and heard the music in the place it came from. The accent stopped being foreign. The feeling never was. Back in Belgrade, Jojić built Backsprint around that collision — Serbian grit and American roots, with Ognjen Ninković on guitar and Nemanja Cvijović on bass. They recorded their debut with producer Oliver Jovanović in Belgrade. No Nashville session players. No playbook. Just the sound of someone who lived in both worlds and stopped choosing between them. New singles every three weeks.