Originally a duo, musician S Holden Jaffe started Del Water Gap with Maggie Rogers when he was a student at NYU. As a solo artist, he has amassed a following and millions of streams on Spotify as well as featuring on Maggie Rogers’ 2020 album Notes from the Archive: Recordings 2011-2016.
Sorry I Am represents Jaffe’s debut release for Mom + Pop Music, and it comes with a brooding video filmed in the Californian desert.
The song itself shimmers with a dream-like intensity and a heartfelt urgency. Jaffe’s confessional vocals gradually surrounded in the kind of increasingly complex instrumentation that feels like the emotional clouds that exist in my mind. Every so often you identify a small kernel of emotion, but the more you focus on that emotion, the more it grows. That’s what Sorry I Am feels like — a person whose emotional experience expands from the periphery into an overwhelming, insistent and overwhelming wall of feeling.
Check out Sorry I Am below: