I really like the song "The Exiles" by Sorry Girls — the Montreal-based dream pop duo of Heather Foster Kirkpatrick and Dylan Konrad Obront — from their 2023 sophomore album, Bravo!; I think it may have been the sort of streaming service algorithmic nugget of gold that seems to find you less and less these days.
The band name immediately sparked my memory when I saw that, today, Sorry Girls have announced their third album, Dreamwalker (due June 13 via Arbutus Records), led by the new single "Ricochet." The 11-track record was inspired by Fleetwood Mac's Tusk era, and recorded at Two Sisters Studio with a self-imposed working time constraint.
If "Ricochet" is any indication, we're in for a treat. You know how the new HAIM song sounds like the 1975? This is what a HAIM song would sound like if they got really into TOPS. There's a glossy sheen, an effortless buoyancy — a nostalgic '80s feel with the saxophone flourishes in the hook. "Ricochet" feels like slicing your hand through the pastel-hued sky the way Kirkpatrick does on the album cover.
