COSPLAY is when you pretend to be, putting yourself in the role of an anime, comic or superhero film protagonist. Colorful fun, passionate play and of course seriousness when it comes to imitating the right costume. And evil tongues might now claim that North London’s Sorry are very good at imitating their indie rock idols from the eighties, nineties and noughties.
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And yes: on this third album you can wonderfully hear pieces from a wide variety of musical eras. But with Sorry, that’s never born out of the inability to do it better – no, they play with these quotes and references and create something wonderfully their own.
Frontwoman Asha Lorenz plays with her voice, modulates it in a variety of directions, seems to internalize very different characters, chases them through effects devices – and the result sounds sometimes creepy, sometimes seductive, completely uninhibited and completely passionate. And often enough all of that together. Anyone who thought that guitar music had suffocated and died on its own will find their faith in bands again with Sorry. See you in the mosh pit!
This review first appeared in Musikexpress 12/2025.