Regrets – XL
Release Date: 3rd October 2025
Label: Self Released
With hardcore looking healthier than ever, the timing couldn’t be better for London’s heavyweight Regrets release of their debut album, XL. Through honing their craft for the last seven years, and loaded with as much punch as its title suggests, this no frills premiere comes out fully swinging.
Having a runtime of barely sixteen minutes long, it’s hardly surprising that the album sticks to a high-energy ethos, bursting with rapid-fire punk beats and frenetic guitar riffs. The trio takes every opportunity to throw down across the eleven tracks featured on this record, in an effort to capture the same intensity mirrored in their live shows. Channeling a resonating influence from their stateside brethren, (such as the likes of Trapped Under Ice and Rotting Out), our southeastern collective embrace the hardcore culture in delivering these songs with their full chest.
The singles ‘Suck It Up’ and ‘XL’ vehemently seethe both lyrically and instrumentally, as squealing feedback bleeds over the copious gang vocals and ferocious, rattling bass lines, whereas shorter tracks like ‘Out of Control’ and ‘Get High’ despite being less than a minute long are pure rocket fuel. Even with the brief Bossanova interludes.
Whilst XL is firmly rooted in unwavering displays of traditional hardcore, the release remains a deservedly confident milestone for the Regrets familial.
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