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THE REGRETTES
release new album
FURTHER JOY
OUT TODAY VIA WARNER RECORDS
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Photo – Claire Marie Vogel
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Today, The Regrettes release their highly anticipated third studio album, Further Joy, via Warner Records. With the album, The Regrettes, consisting of singer and songwriter, Lydia Night, as well as Genessa Gariano (guitar), Brooke Dickson (bass) and Drew Thomsen (drums), have written a manual for living in these times, replete with highly personalized songs about things we’re all going through.
Talking about the record, Night shares “that phrase, ‘further joy,’ summarized what it meant to be on the hamster wheel of constantly chasing happiness, but in turn, that’s what makes you unhappy. I was stuck in a loop of wanting to be better, wanting to be good, and therefore I couldn’t be here. I couldn’t be present.”
The desire to break free of that cycle is what the band’s third album, Further Joy, is all about, a joyous and self-aware soundtrack for those interested in what Lydia refers to as “dancing the pain away.”
Recently, The Regrettes performed their latest single “Anxieties (Out Of Time)” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and will perform at both weekends of Coachella ahead of their 19 date Further Joy headline US tour with support from Alex Lahey on all dates.
As the pandemic set in and Los Angeles shut down, The Regrettes were having a full-blown identity crisis. Lydia had been touring since she was 12-years-old, meeting guitarist Genessa when they were just teens in music school, and formed a cohesive lineup with Brooke and Drew. They’d spent the past two years headlining sold-out shows across North America and Europe, performing at mainstay festivals like Coachella and Reading and Leeds and playing their hit singles on Good Morning America, Conan, and Jimmy Kimmel Live!.
In January of 2021, after more than a year apart, The Regrettes reconvened for a 10-day writing retreat in Joshua Tree. They went on hikes, stargazed, transformed their living room into a disco, and had candid conversations, some of which made their way into songs. They left the desert with a vision for the record and demos in hand, slowly bringing it to life through zoom writing sessions, and working separately with producers Jacknife Lee and Tim Pagnotta. Although the subject matter is anything but light, Night still calls it the “poppiest, and danciest” album they’ve ever made.
The band were quick to get back on their feet, selling out a California underplay tour in 2021, confirming upcoming appearances at major US festivals including Bonnaroo and Coachella 2022, and releasing two songs, “You’re So Fucking Pretty”, which Rolling Stone called “a brutally honest confessional ballad that captures The Regrettes’ effortless transformation from teenage punks into pop powerhouses,” and single “Monday”, which cracked the top 15 at US alternative radio in advance of their new album Further Joy.
Further Joy is a step into the band’s next era, and it is their most actualized, collaborative, and vulnerable album to date. These new songs, written in Night’s singular voice and with vast influences including Pat Benatar, Blondie, and Gwen Stefani, touch on subjects such as anxiety and mental health, feeling lost in one’s own environment, and coming to terms with one’s sexuality. They are also about hope, embracing and standing up for your inner child. A lesson she hopes fans can take away from the album is that “we all deserve happiness and to be present, and we’ll never get there if we feel so much shame and guilt for not being there already,” she adds. “Don’t get caught constantly chasing joy.”
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STREAM / DOWNLOAD FURTHER JOY HERE
The Regrettes
Further Joy
Track Listing
Anxieties (Out of Time)
Monday
That’s What Makes Me Love You
Barely on My Mind
Subtleties (Never Giving Up On You)
La Di Da
Homesick
Better Now
Rosy
You’re So Fucking Pretty
Step 9
Nowhere
Show Me You Want Me
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