{"id":268690,"date":"2026-02-05T08:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268690\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T08:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T08:49:09","slug":"sorry-release-billy-elliot-alone-in-cologne-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/268690\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Release &#8220;Billy Elliot&#8221; &#038; &#8220;Alone In Cologne&#8221;: Listen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was only just a few months ago that London&#8217;s Sorry shared their latest album Cosplay, which we named both <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2476381\/album-of-the-week-sorry-cosplay\/reviews\/album-of-the-week\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Album Of The Week<\/a> and one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2480469\/the-50-best-albums-of-2025\/lists\/year-in-review\/2025-in-review\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Best Albums Of 2025<\/a>. Today they&#8217;re back with more goodness in the form of two new singles called &#8220;Billy Elliot&#8221; and &#8220;Alone In Cologne.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if these new songs are Cosplay outtakes or brand-new material. &#8220;Billy Elliot&#8221; feels like a lightly psychedelic spin on &#8217;80s sophisti-pop, while the very catchy &#8220;Alone In Cologne&#8221; gets into funk territory with some beefy guitar tones. Of the two songs, Sorry only have this to say: \u201cI used to be close to you or somebody that I once knew.\u201d Listen to them both below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was only just a few months ago that London&#8217;s Sorry shared their latest album Cosplay, which we&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-268690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}