Sorry Girls

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Pop Mutations presents:
Sorry Girls

• Special Guests
  Thursday 22nd May
  The Glad Cafe
  18+

Montreal’s fever dream pop duo, Sorry Girls, returns with their third album Dreamwalker out via Arbutus Records. Their eccentric blend of nostalgic 70s power ballads and 80s kitsch breaks through new thresholds, dismantling futile illusions to brave the cold and ask what lies ahead.

Is a love interest a bridge or a tightrope? When does the desire for a fantasy slip into a twisted fate? Dreamwalker is a time capsule of being stuck in a transitional space—an emotional in-between filled with longing and tension. You’re aware of where you want to go, but you’re caught between desire and reality. Dreamwalker is deliberate, self-aware and ironically self-effacing. Trapped in the reflection of the window, you just need to slide the handles to get to the other side.
Shifting from their more structured pop influences and drawing inspiration from Fleetwood Mac and The Blue Nile’s glittery production style, the band set up camp at Montreal’s Two Sisters Recording Studio. With an emphasis on collaboration, swift artistic decisions and a self-imposed time constraint, Sorry Girls fostered a spontaneous, atmospheric sound that stayed true to the essence of the record.
The lyricism toys with idyllic visions of love objects, fantasies of future utopias, and the obsessive edging for an ease and newness to sweep in. With a playful sonic palette, the emotional confusion is conflated with a swimming sense of lucidity.
Washy production techniques and punchy bass lines pair with softer piano trills and gentle drums, recreating the lyrical push-pull between two worlds. The organic elements represent the honest feelings—while the synth layers represent the dreams, the idealized version of the future, the fantasy world that is out of reach.
“There’s beauty in a breakdown. Trying to find acceptance in things that aren't complete or final, healing the part of myself that believes that it can look that way. Living inside that world, and using that world to create the next world.” says Heather.

The potential of life choices dangle outside the window. Restless and ambiguous feelings draw us to the wrong pleasures. What leads to the most fruitful turn, but the vulnerable singing voice that knows the way to the right place.