Sorry : COSPLAY

"In the spirit of plunderphonic predecessors like the Avalanches and the Books, Sorry takes a cut-up approach to pop culture. "Jetplane" flips a Guided By Voices hook, some dial tone, and a taut breakbeat into a frenzied battle cry: "Arrest me! I'm a hot freak!" On "Waxwing," backed by a Twilight Zone synth and industrial feedback, Lorenz transforms Toni Basil's coquettish one-hit wonder "Mickey" into something altogether more salacious."

"COSPLAY revels in distinctly human flaws: The false start on the theatrical piano number "Magic;" Lorenz's vocal rasp on the rowdy "Today Might Be the Hit;" the way her voice loses and finds the beat on the profane, Elton John-indebted "Candle." A porous mix of influences and imperfections, the album captures the uneasy sensation of grasping for something concrete in a world that stubbornly defers meaning."

"Sorry falters when they try to nail down specifics. A tossed off line about reactionary Japanese philosopher and poet Yukio Mishima on "Into The Dark" and anesthetized single-word repetitions on "Echo" threaten to flatten Sorry into just another group of Zoomer nihilists dreaming of extinction. But this being a Sorry record, a few seconds of a discordant guitar or a percussive clash will shift the mood again."

Sorry uses a cut-up approach to pop culture, flipping hooks, dial tone, and taut breakbeats into frenzied, confrontational songs. "Jetplane" repurposes a Guided By Voices hook into a battle cry, while "Waxwing" reconfigures Toni Basil's "Mickey" with Twilight Zone synth and industrial feedback. "Love Posture" channels animalistic sensuality with humming bass and explicit lyricism. Performances foreground human flaws through false starts, vocal rasp, and rhythmic slips. The porous mix of influences and imperfections produces an uneasy sensation of grasping for something concrete amid deferred meaning. Occasional attempts at specificity risk flattening into nihilistic repetition, but abrupt sonic shifts restore momentum.

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