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The Problem With Fun

by Sorry Eric

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Wasp 02:54
We will figure it out like back when the cicadas emerged from the ground before the Earth would take us out of ourselves again distracted from what matters what really really matters what’s shattered by the planets evil and selfish grin back when i think again tunnels in the earth from which we will always emerge until our shells crack and burn in the afterlife from another cruel summer We will burrow it out like the lowliest of maggots whose escape from the guts was ensured by the glorious earth who learns again to endure all the human hatred, ignited not debated never sated, aided by the lies and the flies who burn inside your eyes tunnels in your mind keep you awake in a state to rewind and never break in the afterlife from another cruel summer The wasp on the curtain wants to kill you for certain, cuz it knows what itz lost, and now it aims to inject some modicum of real respect for the almighty earth to ignite your nerves as you fail and flail to recognize the truth on this ruthless afternoon tunnels cut through hell keep you awake in a state ready to incorporate every lesson from another cruel summer
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Skeleton 02:07
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Data 02:41
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Patterns 03:51
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Memorial 05:50
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Unrest 02:53

about

Over the past handful of years, Sorry, Eric has been quietly refining its take on Ohio post-punk. Led by deadpan, incisive songwriter and vocalist Eric Dietrich, and featuring Christina Cahalane on drums, Brian McCabe on Bass, and Nick Ruma on guitar, the band oscillates between the vulnerable and the biting, all the while throwing hooks in each observance. Their upcoming LP The Problem With Fun is the opposite of candy-coating, often summoning up pleasant existential aphorisms only to unmask them as untruths. This sandpaper truth-telling has been partially brought on by the COVID-19 crisis - where people were told things were okay, that they should just get jobs, that enthusiasm was warranted. We know differently. Thus “The Problem With Fun” - what makes you feel good may eventually fuck you up, and - despite our best attempts - eventually fucked up we will be.


Notwithstanding its title, The Problem With Fun is actually…fun? The album opens with tinkling synthesizers before Eric’s vocals come in, harmonizing alongside vocalist/drummer Christina Cahalane - “Whenever I feel myself give way, I remind myself it’s just more of the same - waiting for you to be less lame, waiting for you to say ‘You got a problem with fun. You got a problem to suffer.” Soaring, dissonant guitar emerges. Drums maintain steady, eager rhythm. The band’s unique blend of sardonic humor and driving earworms is at its high watermark.


Though the album’s darkness is sometimes padded by turn of phrase and nonchalance, it’s still darkness. Take the melancholy ballad “Bones,” with its gentle, melodic guitar, organ tones, and light drumming. Dietrich rattles off a number of commonly held soothsaid misbeliefs -”that we’ll make it,” “we deserve it,” “that we’ll never die. Plainspoken and evocative, Dietrich muses on death, misery, and inevitability until its tenderly morbid send off - “may his bones be crushed so long as it’s easy for you and for me, too.” The Problem With Fun pulls no punches, but it finds beauty and reward in suffering or at least in facing fear and life head on.

- Jordan Reyes (American Dreams Records, ONO)

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released October 14, 2022

Eric Eric - Vox/Guitar/Wind Synth
Christina Cahalane - Drums/Vox
Brian McCabe - Bass
Nick Ruma - Guitar

Keith Harman - Keys on "Bones" & "Unrest"

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