Sorry Set October Release For Second Album 'Anywhere But Here', Post New Single Let The Lights On
Wednesday, 13 July 2022
Written by Jon Stickler
Photo: Iris Luz
Sorry have announced their second album.
The follow-up to 2020's debut '925' is called 'Anywhere But Here' and will arrive on October 7 via Domino.
Co-produced by the London band with Ali Chant and Portishead's Adrian Utley in Bristol, it was first previewed with the April single There’s So Many People That Want To Be Loved. Today, the group have dropped another cut, Let The Lights On, a dark yet danceable rock track. Singer Asha Lorenz said:
"It’s a fun love song for the club. A bittersweet track for us. It kinda touches on how you want to be honest and say things directly, but in the end that can also ruin them. If you’ve got a light don’t let it go out… sometimes you have to leave things behind but it’s hard to do. We tried to make it a bit ironic by saying things very plainly and direct. It’s the last song we wrote from the album and came out of us trying to find something more upbeat for the album. It started off as a dancey song with driving bass and drums and became more poppy when we played it with the band and recorded it."
Commenting on the LP, Lorenz added: "Anywhere But Here! We approached the album differently from the first one, it was more of a live band process and the outcome has made it feel rawer and more sincere… we think. We wanted every song to have its own gravity but also have little snippets, or lyrical patterns that repeat, grow - metamorphosis.
"Everyone started to feel a bit alien in the last couple years with all that’s happened. It’s kind of weird being from London, growing up here, like anyone who’s been in the same place for ages. How all the landmarks, places, even people are the same, but it still feels different. I think we want things to change, or we think they will, but it kind of just happens again but in a different way. That sound is kind of the sound I imagine when you moan or cum or deep cry – it’s like rebirth. It’s the shedding of a skin!"
In 2021, they put out the 'Twixtustwain' EP and made their 2017 mixtapes 'Home Demo/ns Vol. I' and 'Home Demo/ns Vol. II' — available on streaming platforms.
They'll support the LP with headline UK shows this autumn. Tickets go on general sale at 10am on July 15.
'Anywhere But Here' tracklist:
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
Sorry Upcoming Tour Dates are as follows
Tue October 25 2022 - BRIGHTON Patterns
Wed October 26 2022 - NOTTINGHAM Metronome
Thu October 27 2022 - LEEDS Brudenell Social Club
Fri October 28 2022 - GLASGOW Stereo
Sat October 29 2022 - DUBLIN Academy 2
Mon October 31 2022 - BRISTOL Fleece
Tue November 01 2022 - MANCHESTER White Hotel
Wed November 02 2022 - LONDON Electric Brixton
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