In the fresh open air of small-town life, there is a kind of honesty that only comes with living after your heart has broken, and Dale Frost channels it through their newest single "Things You're Not Sorry For". It's part psychological clearing, part musical release, and the intimate confessionals that may only further your understanding of life on earth as an lgbtq person.
"Things You're Not Sorry For" invites you into a moment that is as intimate as it is unflinching, the awkward recognition of forgiving someone who never even requested redemption. Dale doesn't romanticize the hurt. Instead, they interlace it with the kind of narrative thread that sounds like an after-midnight front porch conversation, three parts openness, two-thirds resilience, and a full measure of side-eyed humor.
The tune is tender, and its musical arrangement strikes a pleasing balance between the sweet and sharpest attributes. The whole tune has a slow-burning quality that feels buzzing and alive, backed up by this beat that feels like the kinds of palpitations you can't avoid IMO. Dale delivers this vocal with measured warmth, but you can also hear the slight rasp of someone who has said these words out loud before and knows what they mean. It is a performance that allows you to hear not just lyrics but the lived experience behind them.
Dale excels here in homing in on the intimate and making it feel universal. While steeped in the small-town textures of rural Georgia, where gossip travels faster than weather patterns and hitting up a Chevy for Afternoon Delight becomes an awkward prom sideplot, the emotional truth of The Last Great Guitar Player has resonance long past rural runways. Even if geography and identity never aligned, the battle to offset one's emotion against another's absence has been a universal one.
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