(Domino)Part of the
London scene loosely headquartered at Brixton’s Windmill pub (from Fat White Family to Goat Girl and beyond), Sorry have undergone a radical upgrade in the two years since they started turning heads. Once a scratchy, pointedly blank boy-girl duo, their live band now numbers four and their ambitions stretch beyond indie rock.
Near the end of their debut album, a whimsical folk-pop song called Heather imagines a world where Sorry aren’t passive-aggressive misanthropes, but writers of whimsical sync-bait. A reworked oldie, Ode to Boy, is even more promising: a curdled takedown of a love song, its degraded sounds and malfunctioning effects play off against Asha Lorenz’s sarcastic pop vocal.