SorryNotSorry was never supposed to be a thing. After an eight-year break from music, Samantha Dagnino collided with fellow Venezuelan artist Andrés Cottin by chance during an impromptu jam session at a Long Island City, N.Y., studio. Three album later, The Other Side is their most cohesive statement to date, a post-punk sonic exploration that’s equal parts Portishead, Radiohead, Khruangbin and Tame Impala yet still occupies its own utterly human headspace.
“The Meaning Of Life and Internet, Web Surfing And Email were meant to be statements against the dark forces destroying our world,” says Dagnino. “When I composed those albums, I was writing from a place of hopelessness and doom. I didn’t care about anything or anyone. When Andrés came into the band, everything changed. I put down the electric guitar and allowed myself to explore sounds that helped me heal and believe in the future again.”
“The beauty of it all is that we managed to make our best album yet in purely indie recording setups,” adds Cottin. “Working in bedrooms as home studios, recording drums in people’s houses and focusing on positive, hopeful lyrics. It was truly a case of getting the best out of what we had, instead of wishing for something we don’t have yet.”
We’re proud to premiere SorryNotSorry’s The Other Side
—Hobart Rowland
