Sorry Reveal Origins of New Song “Key to the City”: Exclusive
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Origins is our recurring feature series that provides artists with a space to explore the everything that went into their latest release. Today, UK rock group Sorry take us through “Key to the City.”
Sorry have unleashed “Key to the City,” the latest single from their upcoming sophomore effort Anywhere But Here. The gloomy, acid-pop ballad comes complete with a trippy, near-dystopian music video co-directed by band member Asha Lorenz.
With a name like Sorry, you’re not exactly expecting joyful music. Even so, the particular brand of doomed, artsy indie-rock of “Key to the City” is surprising. With ominous rhythm guitars and manic synth lines, the track finds Sorry tapping into the same type of depressive tone bands like Radiohead usually inhabit.
“I guess this song is in a way quite hopeless,” band member Louis O’Bryen tells Consequence. “When you can’t get someone off your mind, or the things they’re doing without you, or you hold on to things they’ve said to you that have changed meaning now things are different. It’s all a pointless reflection, but one you need to move.”
The track follows the previous singles “Let the Lights On” and “There’s So Many People That Want to Be Loved,” each moody in their own right, but without the utter hopelessness described by O’Bryen. Understated and dynamic, “Key to the City” is Sorry’s most beautifully crushing song yet.
The accompanying video is fittingly dreary. Co-directed by Lorenz, it voyeuristically follows the lives of several individuals through the lens of an open window. The visuals are absurd, almost disturbing, and often carry with them a dark sense of humor.
Check out the video for Sorry’s “Key To The City” below, followed by the Origins of the track as explained by Louis O’Bryen.
Anywhere But Here is out October 7th via Domino. Pre-orders are ongoing. The band will also be touring off the back of Anywhere But Here; check out tickets via Ticketmaster.
Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song” and Nick Drake’s “Day is Done”:
“Pyramid Song” and “Day is Done” really inspired this song. They’ve both got really interesting chords that kinda creep out from the darkness and leave you uneasy. These songs have moments that make you feel like the release is about to come, but it kind of never does, they just linger and meander through the same feeling.
Nirvana’s cover of Lead Belly’s “Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”:
This version of the song has a similar yearning to “Key to the City.” That feeling that you know that person is out there, somewhere, but not by your side. It’s disconcerting and passionate and also kinda creepy.
Hopelessness:
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I guess this song is in a way quite hopeless, when you can’t get someone off your mind, or the things they’re doing without you, or you hold on to things they’ve said to you that have changed meaning now [that] things are different. It’s all a pointless reflection, but one you need to move.
The City of London:
Photo by Benjamin Davies via Unsplash
[London] and how it’s changed has played a big role in our lives growing up and then manifested its way into our songs, “Key to the City” is the obvious one but it is also around a lot in Anywhere But Here. All of our relationships happen in the same place, and it provides a background or soundtrack to different times in your life. Different places in the city hold different meanings and then become different songs.
Sorry Reveal Origins of New Song “Key to the City”: Exclusive
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