[1] In 2022, the band announced their signing to California label Smoking Room and released the split EP An Insult to the Sport and the album lucky styles.

Philadelphia radio station WXPN wrote that "[d]espite being a sonic blur, Destiny XL has this eerie ability to elicit hyper-specific feelings that blindside you" and described the band as "a homage to the unknown, to the visceral, and to the things that haunt us.

"[1] Stereogum described An Insult to the Sport as "one of the year’s best EPs", called lucky styles "beautiful and fascinating",[3] and included TAGABOW as part of a larger "new wave of American shoegaze".

[2] Chicago Reader praised the "loose, uninhibited creativity" of lucky styles and said the band "toy[s] with shoegaze like Van Leeuwen screws around with ice cream".

[19][1] Original breakcore and ambient interludes produced by Dulgarian feature prominently on both Destiny XL and lucky styles, and are played on a sampler while the band tunes during live sets.