Sorry Eric - It's Okay LP
Is there a definitive song about Cincinnati? One that truly captures the fraught relationship with being a city both out of time and place? A Midwestern Rust Belt straddling the Southern border of the Mason-Dixon line? A city with the highest per-capita of Fortune 500 Companies with one of the highest poverty indexes?This relationship with Cincinnati truly vexes Singer/Songwriter/Multi-Instrumentalist Eric Dietrich on Sorry Eric’s debut album, It’s Okay. Composed of members of Vacation, Mardou, Homemade Drugs and Brindle, Sorry Eric tackles this love-hate relationship head-on with spiky, fist-pumping post-punk of the proper-noun dropping “Cincinnati”, Evil, Vile Main Street Yuppies” and “It’s Okay”. Dietrich internalizes these external struggles on declarative spoken-word songs like “Earthly Insults” and “Bicycle Experiments” where characters tackle existential questions following funerals or during suburban bicycle rides.Sorry Eric’s pop sensibilities can be best understood in their l