Sorry have never been easy to pin down, and their new album COSPLAY leans into that shapeshifting instinct with precision. It’s a record that questions what’s real and what’s performed, where identity slips between mirrors but never disappears. The result is one of their most focused and fearless projects yet, a world of distortion that somehow makes perfect sense.
From the first track, COSPLAY feels like a response to modern overstimulation. It’s desperate, funny, and unflinchingly aware of its own contradictions. “Waxwing” bends a pop lyric you almost recognise until it becomes something strange and new. “Jetplane” rides paranoia like a current, jittering between menace and movement. On “Echoes,” Asha Lorenz’s voice feels close enough to touch, threading through layers of distortion as she calls into the dark and hears herself reflected.
At its core, COSPLAY is about searching for meaning in a time when everything feels manufactured. The songs twist familiar sounds into uncanny shapes, exploring how imitation and authenticity can blur until they become the same thing. Sorry play with nostalgia and modern chaos as if they’re two sides of the same coin, building something that feels both deeply personal and universally unsettled.
Sorry have always used mimicry as a tool, pulling in fragments of other songs, films, and ideas until they feel reborn. On COSPLAY, those nods become part of the architecture. “JIVE” and “Today Might Be the Hit” twist bright hooks into something more unstable, while “Love Posture” turns the familiar rhythm of 2000s pop into an uneasy confession. There’s a thrill in watching them blur their influences into something that feels new.
COSPLAY is both playful and disorienting, skilfully blending genres and sounds, yet every element is purposeful and meticulously crafted. The record unfolds like a collage, constantly rearranging itself as it progresses. Each song reflects and interacts with the others in unexpected, yet captivating ways, creating a rich soundscape that invites listeners to explore its depths and complexities.
Sorry have made an album about illusion that never loses sight of the truth. In a moment when everything feels artificial, COSPLAY reminds us that pretending can sometimes be the most honest act of all.
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