Sorry - Anywhere But Here - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Best friends Asha Lorenz and Louis O'Bryen have woven their debut album 925 like a dreamscape in which idyllic and hellish scenes intermingle, forcing the question of what is real and what is make believe. Inspired by everything from Hermann Hesse to Aphex Twin and old-school crooner Tony Bennett, the duo's experimental and holistic approach marks them out as a thoroughly 21st century band which had been evident in their early mixtapes and singles.

We died when we started writing this album, declare Sorry, the London-based five-piece preparing to COSPLAY, their third studio album. But if Sorry did, indeed, die before a note had been recorded, before a single word had even been jotted down, who the hell are this bunch now masquerading as Sorry? Who has donned the Sorry outfits so convincingly? Who is it that has recorded COSPLAY, this album that first meticulously erases and then extravagantly redraws the perimeters of what a contemporary rock'n'roll band can achieve? Welcome to the world of COSPLAY, where anyone can be anyone, past or present, real or imaginary, dead or alive. Album Tracks 1. Echoes 2. Jetplane 3. Love Posture 4. Antelope 5. Candle 6. Today Might Be the Hit 7. Life in This Body 8. Waxwing 9. Magic 10. Into the Dark 11. Jive

Brooklyn's Habibi brought an explosive and celebratory fun to their self-titled 2014 debut. That brief collection was overflowing with bubblegum melodies, upbeat pop, and the kind of giddy excitement that bands only revel in during their earliest stages. Six years later, sophomore album Anywhere But Here retains some of that excitement, but sees the band expanding into moodier expression, more complex songwriting, and an expanded instrumentation that includes occasional Middle Eastern touches. This kind of progression was hinted at on the band's 2018 EP Cardamom Garden, which saw them incorporating Persian hand percussion and lyrics sung in Farsi into shadowy rock tunes. Album Tracks 1. Angel Eyes 2. Bad News 3. Flowers 4. Born Too Late 5. Stronghold 6. Dragging Me Down 7. Mountain Song 8. In the City 9. Misunderstood 10. Hate Everyone But You 11. Come My Habibi