Sorry Eric It's Okay

Limited to 200 Copies.

Mastered by John Hoffman

Artwork by Robert Scott of The Bats

Layout and Design by Christina Cahalane

"When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times." - Mark Twain

Is there a definitive song about Cincinnati? One that truly captures the fraught relationship with being a city both out of time and place? A Midwestern Rust Belt straddling the Southern border of the Mason-Dixon line? A city with the highest per-capita of Fortune 500 Companies with one of the highest poverty indexes? Perhaps there is no better place to watch the world burn down than in Cincinnati. A city currently enjoying the halcyon days of the new millennium.

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.

Sorry'Eric's pop sensibilities can be best understood in their lineage to New Zealand's Flying Nun Records from the undeniable melodic sensibility and slightly skewed perspective on each song's composition to Robert Scott's (The Bats) painting on the LP cover, the spiritual connection runs deep.

The album continues Whited Sepulchre's exploration into the fertile underground of Midwestern experimental music. Living down the street from Eric and Christina I've seen these songs progress from sketches written at the kitchen table to fully fleshed compositions that approximate the best of Midwestern Indie Rock filtered through Kiwi Pop.