RØRY – RESTORATION
Release Date: 31st January 2025
Label: SADCØRE
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Genre: Alternative, Nu-Metal, Hip Hop.
FFO: Bambi Thug, Taylor Acorn, Hot Milk, Yours Truly, As December Falls.
Review By: Mark Waight
In 2024 RØRY was crowned “The Best UK Breakthrough Artist” at The Heavy Music Awards, smashing industry expectations and proving that age is no barrier to achieving recognition. In fact, RESTORATION demonstrates that RØRY is only now just reaching the height of her creative powers with an empowering and revealing look into her own personal struggles and darkest thoughts.
RØRY is already an icon of the alternative music scene with a huge following, so it will come as no surprise that RESTORATION is absolutely nailed on to be a massive success for her in terms of further exposure and record sales. Off the back of this, RØRY is also now on the cusp of her biggest UK tour to date.
With a Blackbriar vocal style opening, “If Pain Could Talk, What Would It Say” is a cracking tune with plenty of Nu-Metal attitude. What a great start! Tackling the tough subject of suicide, in “The Bible” is an alternative look into the bleak world of the mental health issues that some people face every single day in what is THE epidemic of our times?
Haunting song “Wolves” reminded me at times of a much darker and heavier version of the Cranberries, it’s an absolute banger! “Hold On” (featuring Roxanne Emery) fuses an Ed Sheeran style composition with modern hip hop to create something refreshingly different and thoroughly enjoyable.
If you were asked to define the sound of this current music era, “BLOSSOM” would be it! Blooming excellent! You really don’t have to be a pipe smoking sleuth to fully appreciate this wonderful composition, “Sherlock Holmes” will have plenty of commercial appeal too.
The spectre of “One Drink Away” is a phrase that many addicts will know only too well and the devastating effects it can have on your life, your friends and your family. The very poignant “MORALITY SUICIDE” takes a long hard look at the world we now live in, and the approaching crisis point that may take us all into the abyss.
“SORRY I’M LATE” is the tale of how at 40 years old RØRY has only just emerged on the music scene and the background to her delayed appearance in our music feeds. Closing the album, final track “The Atheist” completes RESTORATION with the revelation of how RORY turned her own troubled life around and is still here today to create gems like this.
Every song on RESTORATION is delivered in a neat bite size slice that fits in perfectly with how music is presented in this modern age. RØRY tackles a great many taboo subjects too in her own unique and endearing way.
RESTORATION is a darn good album overall, with influences from so many different artists and genres all helping to make it a very relevant and creative melting pot homage of these worrying times. Recommended.
(4 / 5)
