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March 31st, 2020 12:23am

Make Her Real


Sorry “Right Round the Clock”

Sorry have a similar vocal and musical dynamic as The XX, but whereas that band always conveys an aching romanticism in their crisp minimalism, this group communicates raw feelings bent out of shape by cynicism and complications in their jagged, deliberately clunky minimalism. (I hear echoes of Tom Waits and Micachu in their more broken-sounding arrangements.) “Right Round the Clock” sounds like what would normally be a sexy, strutting song tilted at a strange angle, and the vocal interplay between Asha Lorenz and Louis O’Bryen is deadpan but not so much so that it comes off as a joke. They’re singing about celebrity with a mix of lust and self-loathing – one falls in love with the idea of a mysterious beautiful woman, the other fantasizes about living out her reality. They know it’s hollow and fake, but they can’t help but be seduced by the notion. The best part of the song comes when they swap out the first chorus for another that interpolates Tears for Fears’ maudlin classic “Mad World” with ironic new lyrics: “The dreams in which we’re famous are the best I’ve ever had.”

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