How Do You Love

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ow Do You Love?, the sophomore LP from L.A. power-pop outfit The Regrettes, is a an album about the most universal of emotions: love. Throughout the record, 18-year-old frontwoman Lydia Night details the rise and fall of a relationship from that first rush of butterflies, through a destructive break-up, to ultimately finding peace and closure. The album arrives on the heels of a few explosive years for The Regrettes. Taking that momentum in stride, the band is excited to move into their next era.

Night, who wrote the vast majority of lyrics on How Do You Love?, came up with the idea after writing a group of songs about her experiences in various real-life relationships. From there, she says, she realized that they all they fit together and tell a story. This story begins with a spoken-word poem, as Night diagnoses the listener as being infected with a love disease. From there, the album is off to the races: the first song is the recently released standout California Friends, a danceable track about the excitement and the nerves that come with meeting someone new. [Its about] not knowing your feelings towards that person, really, Night says, but your gut is telling you that you like them, or love them, but you just know that its not whats easiest [for you].

A little less than halfway through the record, with the sauntering Stop and Go, Night pumps the breaks a bit: Stop before we lose control, she sings, Lets take a breath before we go, go, go. She explains that the song is about realizing that her new relationship isnt perfect: A lot of times, she says, at the beginning of a relationship, theres just nothing wrong. But then the problems start popping up. [You discover] theres a lot you dont like about the person a lot of [qualities] you dont think you can be with. By Dead Wrong, these problems have become insurmountable for Night. And in the last quarter of the record (Go Love You, Hasnt Hit You, and Here You Go), she makes the decision to leave and shes not looking back. I feel strong in this decision and I am right, she says of the emotion that inspired those latter songs. Im doing whats best for myself have you learned that yet for yourself?

Although Night ends up alone in her story, the tone of the albums closer (and title track), How Do You Love? is hardly bitter. Instead, its a self-reflection on the journey of falling in and out of love with hope for the future: Its about finding bravery through [love], Night says. Its about learning and accepting that, yes, you went through a shitty breakup, but thats amazing because all that means is next time youre in a relationship, you know so much more about yourself and about what you want. Returning to Nights original diagnoses of the listener being infected with love, the record makes it very clear that The Regrettes are infected, too but thats not a bad thing. The band hopes that the album will provide the cure, by showing listeners that no matter how theyve experienced love whether its romantic, platonic, or self-love theyre never alone.

2019 will be their year because theyre a unique proposition in a world full of copycats. Kerrang!

Are The Regrettes the worlds coolest teenagers? Evening Standard

Theyre achingly cool and have a live show thatll make your head go all dizzy. NME