Sorry share two new songs, “Cigarette Packet” and “Separate”
The tracks follow the band’s 2020 debut record 925.
Last year saw the release of 925, the debut album from the London-based indie band Sorry. The project was praised for its bent-pop idiosyncracies, something the group double down on for their two new songs "Cigarette Packet" and "Separate," out today.
"Cigarette Packet" is marked by an anxious synth-dotted pace, while "Separate" shines with the influence of Mica Levi. “These songs came from ideas we worked on from home during last year," the band's co-founder Asha Lorenz wrote in a press release. "The sounds are quite metallic / silver / grey and the lyrical ideas are repetitive almost as if they are whispers / mantras/ worries that you’d say to yourself and keep to yourself.”
The songs also come with their own music videos. The clip for "Cigarette Packet" consists of close-ups of smokers enjoying a drag — it's like a less graphic version of the warning labels you'll find on some smokes, but still quite gross. In "Separate," a POV bike ride is intercut with strobing clips of toy cars taking a bath. Watch that one below, and the clip for "Packet" above."
Thumbnail photo by Sara Amroussi-Gilissen