Format: Limited Edition 12" LP – Special Fold-Out Sleeve
Artist: Brioles
Title: XL
Style: Briobilly
Available
40 Years of Raw Rockin’ and Achin’ Backs
Forty years. Fifteen songs. One hell of a ride.
Brioles celebrate four decades of raw rockin’ with XL, a very special album built from the songs that have accompanied, influenced, haunted and inspired the band since their beginnings.
This isn’t simply a collection of covers. These are songs that form part of Brioles’ own history. Some have been with them almost all their lives, some came and went from their live set over the decades, and others had never been played by the band before — but every one of them has left its mark on their music and their story. When recording the album, the band even made a point of barely revisiting the originals, allowing forty years of Brioles attitude to take over instead. And what a selection: from “Cretin’ Hop”, “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”, “No Feelings” and “Police on My Back” to “Drifting Heart”, “Raska-Yú”, “Down in the Cellar” and “As Tears Go By” — songs coming from very different places, but all filtered through Brioles’ own unmistakable sound. There’s even “When a Zombie Cries (I Walked With a Zombie)”, described by the band themselves as a kind of “half-cover”, while “Bo Was Right (Pretty Thing)” closes the record as a raw bonus track recorded at the rehearsal room.
Recorded largely live at Feelback Studio in November 2025 and mastered by Mario Cobo at Diente de León, XL captures Brioles as they should be heard: Jorge Nunes on vocals and guitar, Daniel Nunes on double bass and Josep Maria Ruera on drums — direct, instinctive and unmistakably Brioles.
The anniversary concept runs through the packaging too. Presented in a special fold-out sleeve, XL opens up into a visual trip through four decades of Brioles, with a collage of photographs, memories and artwork from the band’s history. The vintage reel-to-reel recorder on the front cover sets the tone perfectly: forty years of music, noise and memories captured on tape. Designed by redoble.studio, with cover photography by Miriam Urquiza and an extensive selection of archive and inner-sleeve photographs, the packaging makes XL as much a celebration to look through as it is a record to play. From that hot summer of 1986, when the band first started rehearsing, to 2026: forty years of records, gigs, changing drummers, rock & roll, aching backs and thousands of songs later, these are the ones they chose to celebrate the journey.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. Cretin’ Hop
A2. It’s Love
A3. Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
A4. When a Zombie Cries (I Walked With a Zombie)
A5. I Don’t Care
A6. As Tears Go By
A7. I’m Going Crazy
A8. As in Heaven as in Hell (The Guns of Brixton)
Side B
B1. No Feelings
B2. Drifting Heart
B3. Police on My Back
B4. Raska-Yú
B5. Down in the Cellar
B6. Ella Es Tan Extraña
Artist: Brioles
Title: XL
Style: Briobilly
Available
40 Years of Raw Rockin’ and Achin’ Backs
Forty years. Fifteen songs. One hell of a ride.
Brioles celebrate four decades of raw rockin’ with XL, a very special album built from the songs that have accompanied, influenced, haunted and inspired the band since their beginnings.
This isn’t simply a collection of covers. These are songs that form part of Brioles’ own history. Some have been with them almost all their lives, some came and went from their live set over the decades, and others had never been played by the band before — but every one of them has left its mark on their music and their story. When recording the album, the band even made a point of barely revisiting the originals, allowing forty years of Brioles attitude to take over instead. And what a selection: from “Cretin’ Hop”, “Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White”, “No Feelings” and “Police on My Back” to “Drifting Heart”, “Raska-Yú”, “Down in the Cellar” and “As Tears Go By” — songs coming from very different places, but all filtered through Brioles’ own unmistakable sound. There’s even “When a Zombie Cries (I Walked With a Zombie)”, described by the band themselves as a kind of “half-cover”, while “Bo Was Right (Pretty Thing)” closes the record as a raw bonus track recorded at the rehearsal room.
Recorded largely live at Feelback Studio in November 2025 and mastered by Mario Cobo at Diente de León, XL captures Brioles as they should be heard: Jorge Nunes on vocals and guitar, Daniel Nunes on double bass and Josep Maria Ruera on drums — direct, instinctive and unmistakably Brioles.
The anniversary concept runs through the packaging too. Presented in a special fold-out sleeve, XL opens up into a visual trip through four decades of Brioles, with a collage of photographs, memories and artwork from the band’s history. The vintage reel-to-reel recorder on the front cover sets the tone perfectly: forty years of music, noise and memories captured on tape. Designed by redoble.studio, with cover photography by Miriam Urquiza and an extensive selection of archive and inner-sleeve photographs, the packaging makes XL as much a celebration to look through as it is a record to play. From that hot summer of 1986, when the band first started rehearsing, to 2026: forty years of records, gigs, changing drummers, rock & roll, aching backs and thousands of songs later, these are the ones they chose to celebrate the journey.
Tracklist
Side A
A1. Cretin’ Hop
A2. It’s Love
A3. Sometimes Good Guys Don’t Wear White
A4. When a Zombie Cries (I Walked With a Zombie)
A5. I Don’t Care
A6. As Tears Go By
A7. I’m Going Crazy
A8. As in Heaven as in Hell (The Guns of Brixton)
Side B
B1. No Feelings
B2. Drifting Heart
B3. Police on My Back
B4. Raska-Yú
B5. Down in the Cellar
B6. Ella Es Tan Extraña
