North London act Sorry make boredom beautiful. The band have just unleashed their debut record 925. It’s a call to arms for the disenfranchised that are too tired to do anything. It is the perfect soundtrack for those moments where you are so filled with despondency that all you can manage to do is stare at your bedroom roof and let your body revel in sulkiness. It is one of the first great Gen Z rock albums.
Listen: Sorry – ‘Perfect’
The band worked alongside co-producer James Dring (Gorillaz, Jamie T, Nilüfer Yanya). Together they weaved together a world where gloom rules over, but it’s totally fine. The band draw from an eclectic and far-reaching palette, there are sonic nods to (Sandy) Alex G and Tony Bennett. It’s an album that embraces the mentality that there are no rules anymore. Genre doesn’t matter.
To celebrate the release of 925, we asked Sorry’s Louis O’Bryen a few burning Get To Know questions. Pop on the record below and get to know a little more about Sorry.
How did your artist name come about?
We were originally named fish, but had to change it for obvious reasons, Asha saw ‘Sorry, these toilets are out of order’ on a toiler door in a pub, we thought it was kind of clever and funny. It’s quite abstract so suits us I think. Sorry features; Asha, me (Louis), Campbell, Lincoln and our newest member Marco Pini.
How would you describe your music to your grandma?
Our music fluctuates quite a lot genre wise, so it’s quite hard to say, Warped Pop is my favourite way our music has been described, or chameleonic.
Tell us about a few of the tracks on 925; their titles and what they’re about
‘Wolf’: This is a fun, quite heavy hitting track from the album, it was originally going to be a halloween song, but then we liked it loads so saved it for the album, it has a cabaret-esque quality to it and is really fun to play live.
‘As the Sun Sets’: This is a newer song we wrote for the album, it is really sincere, and one of my favourite tunes off 925. Asha and I wrote it on a hot summers day, and it always reminds me of one; sultry and slow moving but comes to a nice conclusion, running into the sun set…
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‘In Unison’: This is the second track of the album, its got a time change that is weird & catchy, it’s like a marching band song, I picture the little toy soldiers from toy story when I listen to it. We recorded a lot of the songs from this album in our bedroom first and then took it to James Dring’s (the co-producer of 925) studio where we would flesh it out and make it POP, In unison was done like this and thats where a lot of the sound effects and craziness comes from.
What do you love about your hometown?
London is a mad city, massive and busy, the people and diversity of it is really amazing and we’re very privileged to be able to grow up around such inspiring people. All our friends are born and raised in London who we love dearly. So the people are thing we love most about our hometown.
Career highlight so far?
A dream of ours since we started sorry was to play with Alex G, we even joked about putting it into our record deal with Domino, so when we went on tour with him that was definitely a highlight and a dream come true. Also I would say releasing our debut album, we spent the last 5 years writing and playing gigs, so to finally have an album out is very exciting.
Fave non-music hobby?
Cooking is very therapeutic and something we enjoy a lot, Asha makes a lot of music videos for sorry, so thats a hobby of hers. I’d like to be a fisherman and spend my day on the sea, however London is basically landlocked and there aren’t many fish in the river thames.
What’s on your dream rider?
Our rider at the moment, is alcohol (Beer, Guinness & Tequila), sweets and snacks, Tech decks and Bayblade’s and a BaybladeArena. We’ve never received the last two, we’re using it as an indication of our success, when we get that Bayblade Arena, we’ll know we’ve made it.
Dream music collaboration?
This is a good question, I would love to work with Burial, or see how he works or just watch him make a song, it would also be cool to work with Frank Ocean, or be in Alex G’s band.
Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Hopefully still making music, and still being able to play it to people across the world. Would love to record an album in a sunny foreign city, eating nice food and making nice music.
What’s your go-to karaoke song?
Michelle by the Beatles.
