Sour Worm

Sour Worm’s new album, Beep Beep is a 12 song collection exploring what it feels like to embrace and express true feelings through jangly soft rock with a nod to 90s indie, releasing on May 30th 2025.

Sour Worm is the project of prolific songwriter and visual artist, Jasper van Daatselaar that traces self exploration and reflections about the world we live in. With recurring themes of peace, love, loss, and introspective thought, listening to Sour Worm makes you feel deeply, with all of the emotions tucked behind relatable songs about teeth, burps and forks.

Where their previous record, last year’s Let Me See The Light, felt like a songwriter dipping their toes in a sea of new feelings, Beep Beep sees Sour Worm in full confident acceptance of the tidal wave that is this chaotic world.

Made in a leaking studio on the top of a hill with trams running past the window, Beep Beep is a record about embracing the noise of a life full of stories, and unique characters that often become lifelong friends.

First single, Okay is about following through with an intrusive thought. It’s about being silly, accepting the consequences, and leaning into moments of chaos.

Musically, it follows the same playful spirit: goofy guitar solos and raw joyful riffs, all forming a reminder that sometimes being stupid is the most fun you can have.

Fork is a soothing soft rock track tracing a story about accepting advice from a random person at the public spa. Sometimes the best gems in life come when you least expect it.

You showed me
In the Brunswick spa
You can be
Anyone you wanna be

With a live band made from two sets of almost twin siblings, Jasper and Oskar Van Daatselaar and Cal and Dec Blackburn, the Sour Worm Family Band has something for everyone. From gently jangly singalongs to full-band rock jams, there are no boundaries for the Sour Worm sound.

Sonically, this record feels more grandiose than previous releases, mirroring the confident acceptance communicated through Jasper’s stories at this point in their journey.

Through the humorous honesty of Jasper’s stories comes a sense of community, like you’re not so alone. This is a record that makes you see the funny side of life, about not taking ourselves too seriously and having fun amongst the chaos.