Back to sadness with Sorry….
Created in 2019 by Greek musician Dimitris (EmptyLife, ex-After Death Alone), now accompanied by Kimisma (keyboards), the project unveils its fifth album, Fragile.
Vocalist A.W. (Cold July, Have a Nice Life…, Sheba, Tired of Life…) left the band just before the album’s release.
The album begins with the Post-Punk keyboards of title track Fragile, which add a more ethereal touch to the riffs and tortured screams, creating an intoxicating contrast that accompanies us throughout this journey into pain. The darker tones obviously persist before returning to gentleness for Forgive Me for What I Haven’t Done, a composition that first captivates us with its tranquility before adding saturation and vocals, but in a slightly more accessible way, like a kind of feverish dream that goes on and on. Your Smile Is Killing Me follows with its tenacious despair mixed with the melancholic notes of the keyboards reinforced by screams before a strange final, then My Weakness Your Happiness offers us almost joyful tones, a kind of mental discord with A.W.‘s vocals continuing their moans. The lament gently ends joining that of No Tears, which quickly takes over and envelops us in its heady, vaporous sounds, then Diaries of Violence returns to the simplicity of pure DSBM, whose heavy melody is enough to change our state of mind. There is a certain aggressiveness in the vocals, which is ultimately diluted by a rather soothing atmosphere, then we find the industrial-tinged keyboards that haunt Malicious Intent, the last track where the clear voice first imposes itself accompanied by fairly lively drums, but which inexorably leads us to the final moments of darkness.
Sorry… has evolved. From a tortured and raw DSBM base, the project has morphed into a hybrid with hazy and more playful Post-Punk elements, creating an interesting contrast on Fragile that deserves to be intensified.
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