SARAH MCCOY
07.06.2023 - DIE TONNE im Kurländer Palais, Dresden

Having established herself in a few years as one of the most flamboyant figures in the contemporary music, the American singer and pianist Sarah McCoy is back with SORRY FOR YOU, taken from her new album HIGH PRIESTESS, out on the 27th of January 2023. Recorded with veteran producer Renaud Letang (Feist, Keren Ann, Charlotte Gainsbourg...) and under the benevolent wing of Chilly Gonzales (known for the intimate touch of his Solo Piano albums and his collaborations with Jarvis Cocker, Feist, Drake or Daft Punk), these new works mark a turning point for the accomplished singer-songwriter, whose powerful voice reveals painful cracks.

Having fully-mastered the solo exercise of her first album BLOOD SIREN (2019), Sarah has evolved towards modern, electronic, even futuristic sounds that a whole new audience will discover, while keeping that visceral song-writing conviction brought to us straight from New Orleans and that earned her an instant adoption in the European jazz/blues scene.

« I'm not sure anyone can define the "genre" of High Priestess, but it's surprisingly friendly for the intensity of the music... It's all about the atmosphere in which the songs were born. New Orleans is a very specific anomaly in the United States, and that's where I nurtured this Blood Siren music that is both somber like a haunted bar at the bottom of the sea... and light like a head in the clouds. With the new album, it's more like hands in the ground. When I sing High Priestess, I'm tackling something very different. It's a dissection of my personal relationship with myself.»                                                           – Sarah McCoy

SORRY FOR YOU apologizes for nothing. With a bite of cynicism to an acidic trap beat and dubstep bass, it serves a statement towards a woman's experience in the modern dating world clouded with perfectionist social and beauty stanards. The melody is reminiscent of the Happy Birthday song as if being sung at a ruined birthday party. Make no mistake, this song is not an apology, but an expression of pity towards narcissistic culture.