So Sorry So Slow Adult Jazz SKU: SPTH003LP Barcode: 5061041820090 27.00 £27.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Spare Thought Released Date: 26th April 2024 Buying Format: 2LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Today, London-based four-piece Adult Jazz announce their first full-length album in a decade, So Sorry So Slow, out 26 April 2024 via Spare Thought. Alongside the announcement comes lovesick new single ‘Suffer One’ featuring Owen Pallett, a cautious excavation of self and sexuality, clambering across a gorgeously shapeshifting, filmic five-minutes. Containing some of the band’s most abrasive but gentle, beautiful and melismatic work to date, So Sorry So Slow has many defining characteristics: romance, panic, devotion and remorse, threaded together by an intentionally laser-focused love. It’s deeply personal, bruised and candid in its expressions of tenderness, and deeply pained in its concurrent reflections of ecological regret. Across its hour-long runtime, a delicate, frenetic energy and glacial heaviness coexist, the band pitting those paces against one another. In their richly experimental timbre, dancing strings and fluttering falsettos prang against a bed of brass drones like a wounded bird. “We started writing in 2017 and began recording in 2018,” says vocalist Harry Burgess. “We genuinely thought it might be finished in 2018! But things kept developing and, having resolutely not struck while the iron was hot, there was no real external push to rush things after that, so we just kept letting things shift and unfold until it felt right. Listening back to my voice notes it’s nice to notice that there are fragments of ideas from the whole period 2017-2023 which have shaped the record.” Recorded in bursts at studios across London and in the band members’ flats, at Konk, on the Isle of Wight and in Sussex, So Sorry is unambiguous in its evolution. Sonically, there are sparks of the arrhythmic brightness that afforded the band’s critically acclaimed debut album Gist Is its cult adoration, for fans of Arthur Russell and Meredith Monk, but with a blossoming, melancholic darkness often overhead. Piano sprees and luscious string sections appear like low-hanging stars on a night-time drive, whilst plunging vocal distortions and humming brass loops resurrect heavy limbs in a bad dream. “I usually have objects as kind of totems for ideas,” explains Burgess. “The album initially started out to do with performance… [the totem] was a head mic, one of the subtle skin-tone ones, discreet on the forehead of a West End star. A number of the first songs in their original forms were almost musical theatre piano ballads. I think that was really a device to write about my life as the ‘main character’ (pre internet-speak reframing): regrets about romance, relationships – unsustainable relationships with the self and others.” “However, once we started writing, the ideas about unsustainable personal relationships, loving unevenly and heartbreak conflated with a more expressly ecological regret. Like contending with big feelings of loss, endings, beauty, desolation, and with how much joy the earth contains in it. Feeling so much gratitude bound up in waves of sadness. Maybe witnessing a slow-motion goodbye to all that, or its last gasps. I love the earth and the life it supports so much. I love how ecosystems fit together – even the brutal stuff. It may be basic to say, but now is the time to be laser focused on that love. I was thinking about human centrality on earth, us as the ‘main character’, the way that is served by faith and romanticism, and the subsequent disingenuous understandings of our position in the ecosystem, as only stewards somehow, rather than subjects. The totems at this point: a herald’s horn, lorry inner tubes, archaeological tools. I guess from doom, industry, history respectively.” “Now I would say the record is about gripping. Totems being: crampons, rope, drips, desalination equipment, accruing various survival tech. I think gripping sums up both of the threads. There’s the emotionally correct clinging to the earth that is the substrate of everything we value, or the delusional clinging to our imagined dominant position. But also the practical, technological aspects of creating a sustainable relationship, of remaining here. Then I think of romance again.” So Sorry So Slow comes out 26th April 2024 on Spare Thought, mixed by Fabian Prynn at 4AD Studios and mastered by Alex Wharton at Abbey Road. Adult Jazz is Harry Burgess, Tim Slater, Steven Wells and Tom Howe. Artist Adult Jazz Genre Rock And Pop Label Spare Thought Buying Options 2LP Format 2LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Bleat Melisma Suffer One Y-rod No Relief Plenary Marquee Dusk Song Earth of Worms No Sentry Bend I Was Surprised Windfarm Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Adult Jazz and more from Rock And Pop View Product Quick View Adult Jazz Earrings Off Rock And Pop | Tri Angle | 12", EP/Mini Album Released 20th May 2016 £9.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adult Jazz Earrings Off £9.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Tri Angle SKU: TRI036LP Formats: 12", EP/Mini Album Released Date: 20th May 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Adult Jazz Gist Is Rock And Pop | Spare Thought | 1LP Released 1st August 2014 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Adult Jazz Gist Is £15.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Spare Thought SKU: SPTHLP002 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 1st August 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light Rock And Pop | Barsuk | 1LP Released 19th February 2016 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Barsuk SKU: LPBARK160 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th February 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View dot dash 16 Again Rock And Pop | Country Mile Records | 1LP Released 13th October 2023 £21.00 Add to basket Reserve View Reservations dot dash 16 Again £21.00 Genre: Rock And Pop Label: Country Mile Records SKU: CMR031 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 13th October 2023 Reserve View Reservations Read More Add to basket View Product Quick View R.E.M. 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