Sorry Eric

Sorry Eric is an indie rock band from Cincinnati, OH. Comprised of members of Vacation, Mardou, Brindle and Homemade Drugs. Their sound marries Midwestern Post-Punk and skewed NZ Pop.

This relationship with Cincinnati truly vexes Singer/Songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist Eric Dietrich on Sorry Eric’s debut album, It’s Okay. Composed of members of Vacation, Mardou, Homemade Drugs and Brindle, Sorry Eric tackles this love-hate relationship head-on with spiky, fist-pumping post-punk of the proper-noun dropping “Cincinnati”, Evil, Vile Main Street Yuppies” and “It’s Okay”. Dietrich internalizes these external struggles on declarative spoken-word songs like “Earthly Insults” and “Bicycle Experiments” where characters tackle existential questions following funerals or during suburban bicycle rides.

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But forget Ohio just a moment, at least in the musical sense: because actually, when it comes to Sorry Eric, you should be looking several thousand clicks either south west or south east, depending on your preferred direction of travel. It’s best to view Sorry Eric through a more Antipodean lens. If you were a fan of the great NZ label Flying Nun, you’re gonna hear a lot of those great acts they curated: Bailter Space; The Verlaines; Straitjacket Fits; The Bats, whose Robert Scott contributed the painting that adorns the cover of It’s Okay.