Vinyl - HONEYMOAN - Sorry Like You Mean It

Even at HONEYMOAN’s very first jam in their native Cape Town, it was clear they had a rare
creative spark. By the end of day one they had already produced two ready-made bangers –
the bracing guitar-driven rush of ‘</3’, and the slick down-tempo earworm ‘We’ – that were
only a taste of what was to come. That spark has now been fanned into an intense flame.
HONEYMOAN, consisting of frontwoman Alison Rachel, multi-instrumentalist Skye McInnes
who she’s known since their teenage years, and producer Josh Berry, are fast hurtling
towards the release of their debut album ‘Sorry Like You Mean It’.
It’s a record of enormous scope, from the dynamic psychedelic pop of ‘Sit Right’ to the
bracing electroclash odyssey ‘Bad News’; gritty pop-punk on ‘Sorry Like You Mean It’ to
afropop-indebted grooves on ‘Pickup, Don’t Pickup’; to a masterpiece in melancholia on
indie-tinged lead single ‘Shortcuts’. At ease in every one of the record’s myriad styles,
Alison’s lyrics delve deep into the personal.