RØRY — Bloodletting (17 September 2026)

RØRY, Bloodletting — released 17 September 2026

RØRY has dropped her second album, Bloodletting, on 17 September 2026 via SadcØre — and it’s a deliberate shove into heavier, more aggressive territory. Fans who loved her 2025 record Restoration will find the emotion is intact but the sound is sharper: screeching guitars, metal snarls and songs that wear pain like battle armour.

Why it matters

Bloodletting reads like a reclamation project. After a decade-plus of false starts — a folky first record, a label collapse, self-funding debt, and years of writing for others — RØRY has converted grief and chaos into cathartic, loud rock. She’s gone from intimate acoustic to arena-ready confrontation without losing the lyricist’s eye for a line that stings and then makes you laugh.

From accountant to alt‑rock insurgent

The 41‑year‑old’s backstory feeds the album. Trained in Politics and Philosophy, she left an accounting job after her mother died and reconnected with songwriting; early folk work failed commercially, then a period of songwriting for others (including dance cuts) steadied her bank balance and sharpened her craft. A new creative confidence — helped by meeting her partner in 2020 and releasing her first single in 2021 — led to Restoration reaching the UK Top 10 in 2025 and to RØRY reclaiming the stage at Download in 2024 and 2026.

What Bloodletting sounds like

Singles such as Degradation and Dead Girl Walking dial up distortion and growl; thematic staples remain — depression, self‑loathing, resilience — but delivered with a mischievous, often darkly comic twist. RØRY balances the serious and the absurd: stage persona, blue hair and salty humour meet songs that confront grief head‑on.

“I’m a late fucking bloomer, baby, but I’m here!” — RØRY

Bloodletting doesn’t tidy the past; it amplifies it. For listeners who want music that’s both brutal and honest, RØRY’s new record offers catharsis and attitude in equal measure.