Regardless of the types of gigs Regal Cheer actually play, the Brighton punk duo sound like they’d be best received on a pub’s stage on a weeknight, drowning out the complaints of another work day being hurled at the barkeep. Max Cleworth and Harry Menear introduced this fiery formula—which, Stateside, most resembles the everyman-ballads of Jeff Rosenstock as much as it does the recklessness of our neighbors to the north, PUP—in 2023 on their debut Cans, a fierce collection of 10 songs that clocks in at under 20 minutes (let’s add Joyce Manor to that slate of reference points).
After last year’s Big Man Little Man Strike Partnership EP (four songs, seven minutes), the duo will return in May with their sophomore record Quite Good, which seems like a pretty apt title. After sharing the raucous lead single “All the Best” in December, the album is formally being announced today with second single “Crumbs.” Less caustic but equally rousing, the new anthem loudly documents the dissolution of a shitty friendship. “It was the first song we wrote for the new record that really set the bar for the rest of this batch of songs—we knew from the get-go that ‘Crumbs’ would be a single,” the band shares. “We’ve been playing it live for a few years—even before we recorded Cans—and it’s gone down really well. We can’t wait to play it when everyone’s a bit more familiar with it.”
Check out the video below, which sees Cleworth and Menear (presumably) performing the track, shredding at a skatepark, ripping Beyblades, jamming the School of Rock OST, among other very cool activities behind the floppy rubber facade of animal masks. You can pre-order Quite Good here ahead of its May 2 release.
