Lauren Mayberry joins forces with Joe Talbot on reworked version of "Sorry, Etc, Etc"

“If you know me, you know how much I love Idles, so it really is an honor to have reinterpreted this song with Joe," Mayberry says. "We first connected during Covid when I did his Balley TV YouTube series, and have been quietly supportive of each other from the wings since. I messaged Joe last summer about working together and this is the song we decided on. We recorded his vocals in December at Brighton Electric when Idles had a night off on tour. I re-recorded my (screamier) vocals at home before Christmas with Sam Stewart, and was produced by my friend Paul Gallagher.”

“An honour and a joy to work with Lauren finally. I love the album and I’m happy to be a part of it. Fuck the king, she’s the king x,” adds Talbot.

The track originally featured on her recently released debut solo album, Vicious Creature. Speaking of the album, she says: “So much of this process has been an exercise in empowering myself to listen to my own intuition – something I really trained myself out of,” Mayberry says. “That's ultimately why you start making things – because you felt a feeling, and you wanted to articulate that somehow. I think it was important for me to relearn that kind of independence and recognize what I bring to any table I choose to sit at.”