Sorry share 'Closer' - the final preview of their hugely anticipated second album 'Anywhere But Here'

North London’s Sorry have today shared ‘Closer’, the final preview of their hugely-anticipated second album Anywhere But Here, out this Friday on Domino.

To celebrate the release of Anywhere But Here, Sorry will be hosting a listening party at The Windmill Brixton on Wednesday 5 October. Food and drink will be provided, and there will even be a tattoo artist available to tattoo the band’s fish logo. The event will be invite only, with entry via the band’s Discord server HERE.

Commenting on ‘Closer’, Sorry say: “The lyrics in Closer came quickly in one gulp, it felt as if I was talking through quite a few people that had hurt me and me hurting people too. It’s about the person that we are made into sometimes by experiences or desire, and the shame that comes with that. It also is about addiction and the circular spiral of its pattern, rotating and returning. We wanted it to sound like a song from a NYC band in the noughties and the sound developed from there.”

Anywhere But Here is the band’s first full body of work since the Twixtustwain EP arrived last year, alongside the official digital release of their brace of 2017 mixtapes Home Demo/ns Vol I. and Home Demo/ns Vol. II. Sorry’s universally-acclaimed debut album 925 earned a string of near-perfect review scores, A-List national radio playlistings and global media profiles upon its release in March 2020.

The new album was largely produced by the band’s Louis O’Bryen and Asha Lorenz, and Ali Chant along with Portishead’s Adrian Utley in Bristol. While Charlie Andrew co-produced recent singles ‘Key To The City’ and the ‘Let The Lights On’ (which was A-Listed by 6 Music recently) with Louis and Asha. The record will be available on 12" vinyl (with a limited version featuring gatefold sleeve, neon green and transparent green vinyl options, 4-page lyric booklet, A2 fold-out illustrations poster), CD, cassette & digitally - pre-order HERE. Singles ‘Let The Lights On’ and ‘There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved’ (with ‘15’4’ featured as the B-side) are available on limited 7” HERE and HERE.

Sorry recently completed a run of support dates with Sleaford Mods in the US (as well as their own LA headline show in April), and a headline UK tour in June, which included a hometown show at London’s Jazz Cafe. The band will tour the UK and North America from October to December, playing their biggest headline show to date in London on 2 November at Electric Brixton. Sorry have also announced European dates in February and March. Tickets are available HERE.

Composed of best friends and co-conspirators Asha and Louis, joined by drummer Lincoln Barrett, multi-instrumentalist Campbell Baum, and Marco Pini on electronics, Sorry have been making music together since their teens. Emerging from Brixton’s Windmill scene, where they played alongside Shame, Goat Girl and Black Midi, Sorry have created their own distinctive musical world - one that draws together a shared passion for lo-fi sounds of grunge, trap, and shoegaze.

If their first full-length album 925 (produced by Lana Del Rey and Gorillaz collaborator James Dring) was more electronic, Anywhere But Here pays homage to classic songwriters of the 1970s, such as Carly Simon and Randy Newman. Asha’s nonchalant salty-sweet vocals contrast with detuned/discordant guitar sounds echoing early ‘90s bands, Slint and Tortoise, and the irregular beats of Kanye or Capital Steez.

As her romantic relationship disintegrated, slow days were spent reflecting on the recent past. ‘I felt like everything was just getting so far away from who I was,’ she says. ‘I kept thinking 'who am I now?' Her mother, a Death Doula, returned home each night from providing spiritual guidance to patients in the end stages of life, with profound stories that were impossible not to absorb. From these domestic periods of disquiet and unease, Asha wrote the closing track ‘Again’, about rebirth and death, with an arrangement responding to the idea of frequency that transcends the female body: ‘The world shone like a chandelier / and I was lost for good.’

A sense of newness sits at the heart of Sorry’s songs - of what it means to be young and upended in the 2020s, with all the challenges and ingenuity that life in the metropolis brings.

See Sorry live in 2022/23:

• 6 Oct Banquet, Kingston
• 7 Oct Resident, Brighton
• 8 Oct Pie & Vinyl, Southsea (matinée)
• 8 Oct Rough Trade, Bristol
• 9 Oct Truck, Oxford (matinée)
• 9 Oct Relevant, Cambridge
• 10 Oct Rough Trade East, London
• 13 Oct Urban Spree, Berlin
• 14 Oct EKKO, Amsterdam
• 15 Oct Pop Up, Paris
• 25 Oct Chalk, Brighton
• 26 Oct Metronome, Nottingham
• 27 Oct Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
• 28 Oct Stereo, Glasgow
• 29 Oct Academy 2, Dublin
• 31 Oct Fleece, Bristol
• 1 Nov White Hotel, Manchester
• 2 Nov Electric Brixton, London
• Nov 8 Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA
• Nov 9 Elsewhere Zone 1, Brooklyn, NY
• Nov 11 DC9, Washington, DC
• Nov 12 Local 506, Durham, NC
• Nov 14 Aisle 5, Atlanta, GA
• Nov 18 Mahall’s, Cleveland, OH
• Nov 19 Ace Of Cups, Columbus, OH
• Nov 20 The Garrison, Toronto, ON
• Nov 22 Empty Bottle, Chicago, IL
• Nov 23 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis, MN
• Nov 27 Wise Hall, Vancouver, BC
• Nov 28 Barboza, Seattle, WA
• Nov 29 Doug Fir, Portland, OR
• Dec 1 Rickshaw Stop, San Francisco, CA
• Dec 2 Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
• 7 Feb Le Grand Mix, Tourcoing
• 8 Feb Stereolux, Nantes
• 10 Feb Petit Bain, Paris
• 11 Feb AB Club, Brussels
• 13 Feb Bumann & Sohn, Cologne
• 14 Feb Paradiso Tolhuistuin, Amsterdam
• 15 Feb Molotow Skybar, Hamburg
• 16 Feb Musikforeningen Loppen, Copenhagen
• 18 Feb Kantine am Berghain, Berlin
• 19 Feb Cafe V Lese, Prague
• 21 Feb Bogen F, Zurich
• 22 Feb Belezza, Milan
• 23 Feb Covo Club, Bologna
• 25 Feb Le Sonic, Lyon
• 28 Feb Sidecar, Barcelona
• 1 Mar Wurlitzer Ballroom, Madrid
• 2 Mar ZDB, Lisbon

Sorry - Anywhere But Here - out 07/10/22 via Domino

1. Let The Lights On

2. Tell Me

3. Key To The City

4. Willow Tree

5. There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved

6. I Miss The Fool

7. Step

8. Closer

9. Baltimore

10. Hem of the Fray

11. Quit While You’re Ahead

12. Screaming In The Rain

13. Again