Song Recommendation: “Waxwing” by Sorry (2025)

Indie-rock weirdos Sorry return with a great new album in COSPLAY and I’d like to single out the enigmatic “Waxwing.” Sorry deploy their finely honed electronic touches throughout (the stuttering vocals, the looping scratchy samples) but its lead singer Asha Lorenz’s delivery of the main refrain that really elevates this track for me: “Maybe you’re desire, maybe you’re the bomb, you make all of my money, because you make all of my songs!” It captures the ethically cloudy no-floor-beneath-your-feet feeling of knowing you use your personal angst for artistic fodder and also knowing that it can’t last forever. Plus it’s as gummy a minor-key earworm as you could possibly want.