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RØRY shares STRANGE video as BLOODLETTING nears

“I realised I was sick from being nice. I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. BLOODLETTING was about reclaiming them.”

RØRY unveils the STRANGE video ahead of September album BLOODLETTING

RØRY has released the official video for STRANGE, the latest single to be lifted from her forthcoming second album BLOODLETTING, which lands on 4 September via SADCØRE RECORDS.

The new clip arrives just days after the album was announced, with STRANGE continuing the run of recent singles that also includes DEGRADATION, DEAD GIRL WALKING and KIDS THESE DAYS. Stream the single here.

RØRY – RORY
RØRY – Photo credit Derek Bremner

A rooftop callback with a different perspective

Speaking about the video, RØRY said: “We went back to do a rooftop performance which references an old video of mine. But coming back to it from a totally different place. One that feels so much more alive.

“I love doing band performance videos, they always bring so much energy and allow for a lot of secret messages to be written on the t-shirts…”

That sense of revisiting old ground from a changed position runs through the song itself. In the material around BLOODLETTING, RØRY frames the record around emotions she had previously kept at arm’s length, with anger and resentment pushed to the front rather than buried underneath the usual survival narrative.

The album’s central wound

On the new record, she said: “I realised I was sick from being nice. I’d spent so much of my life being the bigger person, forgiving people, understanding people, making excuses for people. I’d become disconnected from huge parts of myself. BLOODLETTING was about reclaiming them.”

The album title draws on the old medical practice of releasing blood to treat illness, which RØRY has repurposed as a metaphor for emotional release. Sonically, the record is described as a heavier turn, with RØRY again working with Kingdoms and bringing in additional production and mixing from Dan Lancaster.

She is also set for a Download Festival main stage debut this weekend, adding another major live marker to the album build-up.

What’s on BLOODLETTING

The 13-track record pulls together the recent singles and adds a string of new titles, including the bracketed interludes that suggest a more sharply structured album than a simple singles collection. Pre-order the album here.

RØRY – RORY BLOODLETTING
RØRY – BLOODLETTING
  1. [welcome to bloodletting]
  2. DEGRADATION
  3. SWALLOW
  4. a cure for cancer
  5. MORTAL
  6. [the death of a people pleaser]
  7. KIDS THESE DAYS
  8. DEAD GIRL WALKING
  9. GREY
  10. [oh when the saints]
  11. hometown
  12. STRANGE
  13. [do you want to live?]

More RØRY on Punkinfocus: RØRY releases <em>BLOODLETTING</em> ahead of biggest UK headline tour (September 2026) · RØRY unveils ‘SWALLOW’ and announces biggest UK headline tour (August 2026) · RØRY sets biggest UK headline tour for 2027 (June 2026) · RØRY Takes Aim At British Repression With Kids These Days (April 2026)
More Download Festival on Punkinfocus: Download Festival 2027: Line-up, Dates and Tickets · Download Festival 2026 closes its sold-out 23rd edition (June 2026) · South Arcade drop DEADMEAT before Download Festival main stage set (June 2026) · Download and Kerrang! Bring Heavy Sounds to The Great Escape 2026 (April 2026) · Download Festival expands District X with chaotic and star-studded 2026 line-up (March 2026)

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