Album Review: The Regrettes Ask How Do You Love?
How do you love? Are you a brute with a penchant for mean against your lover? Are you a sweetheart with a tendency for naivety in selected lovers? Are you adventurous and non-comital or calm and monogamous? WHO KNOWS! Yet, we should know who we are as lovers, if, we really want to be happy with someone. Thus, it is quite befitting that The Regrettes use their debut to ask, “How Do You Love?”
The Regrettes dumb-found viewers with their talent, maturity, and confidence; three things most twenty-somethings are learning to have. Yet, The Regrettes see music like a sword to which they cut through all the social BS and personal fears that can make feeling young feel old. People forget that twenty- years olds are human beings emerging into adulthood. We have choices, dreams, and desires to fall in love that are, exactly, like older adults, but still have that “child-like” innocence clutching to not leave through jadedness. Thus, from “California Friends” to “Has It Hit You,” lead singer Lydia Night sounds like “everyone” the has wanted to scorch the earth while wishing they could be on top of it.
The Regrettes – I Dare You [Official Music Video]
Sometimes, you love the world, and, other times, you would not mind an Apocalypse (lol!). This feels especially true if you are young and dating. Tracks like, “Pumpkin,” “More Than A Month,” and “The Game” have The Regrettes painting and pacing summer flings as if they could splat on a canvas. They are visual lyricists and musicians; making every verse and chord feel as plotted as a storyline. Moreover, Night’s voice is intelligent; knowing went to soar and sink into emotional trees like a machete. Her voice feels like Charli XCX had a vocal baby with Brittany Howard’s The Alabama Shakes, and that child became a pop-rock troubaritz.
The Regrettes “California Friends” [Official Music Video]
The Regrettes’ music feels like the smoothed edges of knife; while they can cut, they prefer to converse. I like that balance of badassery. They match how exhausting having a love life can be with a rock n’ roll excitement, which is cool and promising. Moreover, they play to the lovelorn “twenty-something” trying to invest in the temporariness of young love while dreaming bigger and longer. Some youth are too star-born to invest in the fleeting, which The Regrettes are. Hence, How Do You Love? comes off with the vibrancy of an Archie comic; bringing Josie and The Pussycats’ swag to the modern rock scene. The Regrettes How Do You Love comes out on August 9.
