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First credited in Dork's archive: January 2025 · Last published September 2026
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'Sugar Rush' captures a young band at precisely the point where enthusiasm, confidence and a lot of gigging have started feeding into each other. It's messy, urgent and ridiculously alive.
Very good work. Gold star. Well done, SOFY.
And, well, that's basically it.
Revolutionary? No. A really nice time? Absolutely. Sometimes, ten good guitar songs by a good guitar band is precisely the amount of guitar band required.
There are big themes here: faith, mortality, existential crises, humanity.
There's nothing wrong with making the record you need to make. Whether strangers need to spend 40 minutes processing your ex with you is a different question.
That leaves 'Anarchy' in a slightly peculiar position of being easy to like, but harder to love. You keep waiting for Pretty Sick to push one of these ideas right through the wall, but it doesn't quite happen.
It's angsty, but Emily Massey's vocal floats through guitars that fuzz and swell, giving 'Melodie' the easy appeal of Alvvays or Soccer Mommy.
'GOTTA GET OUT' catches the four-piece actively broadening what their band can be.