New Audio: Québec City’s worry Shares Anthemic “Regret”

Through the release of their five-song debut EP, 2020’s after something and a handful of standalone singles, Québec City-based indie outfit worry — creative mastermind and frontman Kerry Samuels, backed by Gaspard Eden‘s Joey Proteau, Valence‘s Aubert Gendron Marsolais, Mid Divers‘ Xavier Beaulieu and l i l a‘s Marianne Porter — quickly developed a reputation for pairing lyrics inspired by Samuels’ experience and emotions with a hook-driven sound that’s heavy yet dreamy. The band describes their sound as “a noisy and emotional wave of sound capturing a warm feeling of nostalgia, like watching childhood home movies on a broken TV.”

The Québec City-based band has begun to build a profile locally and across the province, with the band making runs of the provincial club and festival circuit, including sold-out shows at L’Imperial Bell with July Talk and SOLIDS.

Building upon that growing profile, worry will be releasing their debut album, Positive Memory in the spring. The album’s second and latest single “Regret,” is one-part 90s grunge, one-part Brit-pop, one-part 2000s emo that showcases that band’s knack for pairing vulnerable, lived-in lyrics with rousingly anthemic, mosh pit friendly hooks and choruses. The band explains that “the song reflects on memory, death and the moment that linger long after they’re gone.”

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