Sony Music Nashville and Play It Again Music’s Dylan Marlowe today releases a new track, “Sorryville.” Marlowe recently announced the track to the excitement of fans, who have been demanding the track since he teased it earlier this year.
Complete with clever lyrics, the track immerses the audience into the abandoned, inescapable town of “Sorryville,” a metaphor to represent the narrator’s state of mind, stuck in the lingering regret of a relationship gone wrong.
Growing up listening to both country and pop punk, Marlowe explores both genres with “Sorryville,” which he wrote with collaborators Jimi Bell, Seth Ennis, and Joe Fox, who also produced the track. The blend of these two genres is occasionally woven throughout Marlowe’s music, most recently seen on his “great début album”, Mid-Twenties Crisis, which “opens with a song called ‘Heaven’s Sake,’ which finds common ground between the sound of contemporary country radio and the sound of the Warped Tour in the two-thousands,” (The New Yorker).
Marlowe reflected on the musical influences behind “Sorryville,” sharing, “Growing up, my friends and I would listen to a lot of different pop punk music along with country when we would drive around. Being exposed to different types of music when I was young has definitely impacted me as an artist. I think you can really hear the pop punk influences in ‘Sorryville’ and I always enjoy sharing that side of myself musically. I actually teased this song on TikTok a while back and I’ve been waiting for the right time to drop it – really excited to have this one out in the world. Hope y’all love it.”
Along with releasing new music, Marlowe is currently touring with Bailey Zimmerman as direct support for Zimmerman’s “New To Country Summer Tour.” The tour kicked off in early June and will continue through September.
Additionally, Marlowe’s “sweetly sung” (MusicRow Magazine) song “Picture Perfect” is at country radio now – stream the track HERE. This song follows Marlowe’s first No. One, “Boys Back Home” with Dylan Scott, which he recently celebrated with BMI last week.
Rooted in the classic skills of country music’s past – but finding new ways to deliver three chords and the truth – Dylan Marlowe is an emerging Sony Music Nashville artist proving tradition and convention are very different things. Raised in Statesboro, Georgia, the avid outdoorsman’s unique creative path began with an equally-diverse soundtrack, ranging from Eric Church and Kenny Chesney to Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Good Charlotte and Blink-182. A self-taught writer fusing heartland storytelling with hard-edged intensity, Marlowe broke out with an attention-grabbing cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s “drivers license” in 2021, changing the lyrics to reflect his own backwoods story and resulting in more than half-a-million TikTok followers. Marlowe went on to drop a series of self-penned singles and EPs like “Record High” and Dirt Road When I Die and co-write Jon Pardi’s Number One hit, “Last Night Lonely.”
Most recently, Marlowe released his debut album, Mid-Twenties Crisis, earning praise as a “debut album that will act as a highly effective springboard for a storied career in country music,” (Holler). With a total of 426 million global career streams and counting, Marlowe continues to cultivate an audience on tour as he is currently on the road with Bailey Zimmerman for Zimmerman’s “New To Country Summer Tour.” Previously, Marlowe has toured with Dan + Shay, Cole Swindell, Hardy, Brantley Gilbert, and more. Standing apart from his peers while staying true to himself, the rising star reminds country fans that authenticity doesn’t have to be boring. And in fact, the expected might be overrated.
