Listen to Sorry’s menacing new single ‘Waxwing’

They're about to join Fontaines D.C. on their UK and Ireland tour

Sorry have shared an eerie new single ‘Waxwing’, check it out below.

• READ MORE: Sorry – ‘Anywhere But Here’ review: unpredictability still reigns on more polished second effort

‘Waxwing’ is built around an interpolation from Toni Basil’s 1981 hit ‘Hey Mickey’, reverting the original bubblegum hook: “Hey Mickey/You’re so fine/You’re so fine you blow my mind“, to “Oh Mickey/You’re so fine/Wanna take you back to mine/Oh Mickey/You’re so fine/I’ll stay up late to make you mine.”

A slightly heavier departure from their 2022 album ‘Anywhere But Here‘, the track explores themes of desire over an eerie, sci-fi-esque collection of sounds, as vocalist Asha Lorenz sings in a hushed tone: “Mickey is desire? Mickey is the bomb? Mickey makes me money? Mickey makes my songs? Mickey makes a poem? Mickey in the drugs? Mickey is liar? Mickey making love? Mickey is desire?”

Alongside the track, the band have shared a lo-fi DIY music video directed and produced by FLASHA. Check it out below.

The London indie-rock band are set to join Fontaines D.C. on their UK and Ireland tour later this year, which includes shows in Manchester, Dublin, Leeds, Wolverhampton and two stops at London’s Alexandra Palace. See a full list of tour dates here and find any remaining tickets here.

Sorry’s last album ‘Anywhere But Here’ was released in 2022. In a four-star review, NME shared: ‘Anywhere But Here’ might feel heavy-hearted, and a sliver of Sorry’s edge might have been diluted in their bid for accessibility. But, at its core, the record continues the thing that made them so exciting in the first place – chaotic, brilliant curveballs that capture the confusion and commotion of life right now.

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Ahead of the release of the LP, the band hinted about what was coming next in an interview with NME. “We have some ideas about the future, and me and Louis have been recording lots of other shit, both together and separately,” Lorenz said.

“I think we’re going to put some more stuff out quite quickly, but we’re also looking to make some more stripped-back [music], going back to how we worked before, producing it ourselves and getting a great mixer in or something.”