Irish Indie/ Submit Punk band Petrel soar on their searing debut single, Present Situation.
Petrel – Present Situation
Lengthy-time readers of Proper Chord Music will keep in mind our love of the band Slyrydes. Petrel is the brand new facet challenge of guitarist Eoin Reilly, and it’s instantly thrilling.
Recorded in Dublin within the early half of 2025 and produced by Darragh Winters. Present Situation is constructed round jagged guitar textures, busy basslines, pounding drums, and stark, poetic lyricism.
It is a fantastic introduction to Petrel and completely captures the band’s uncooked dynamic power and obsession with gentle versus darkish.
“Petrel have launched with one thing really thrilling, it’s a shot within the arm for incipid, middle-of-the-road music. This Dublin 4-piece has simply raised the bar!
Introducing Petrel
Petrel provide a softer sound to Slyrydes and manages to expertly steadiness noise and melody. Followers of early post-punk and different indie will shortly discover one thing to like right here.
Petrel are a four-piece that shaped this yr, however every member brings years of firepower from deep inside the Irish underground. Think about 4 frontmen in a single room.
Their title is drawn from the storm hen mentioned to glide simply above crashing waves. It’s an exquisite metaphor for his or her sound: Stressed, intense and all the time shifting ahead. Petrel are instinctive, elemental, earnest, born out of each noise and necessity.
“Our fundamental aim with this challenge was to really be us, we went via a couple of lineup modifications and totally different sounds till it felt proper and actual, it was by no means price doing if it wasn’t going to sound actual”
“We felt there are a whole lot of bands out proper now which have a really comparable voice. We didn’t need to mix in”
Meet the band
Vocals/guitar: Gerry Sheil, previously of Scattered Ashes. Guitarist: Eoin Reilly fSlyrydes. Drummer Mosey: In Athens previously of New Pope, and Rural Savage Bass: Ian McFarlane, Squarehead, Mick Pyro, Merciless Sister, and beforehand Child Karate.
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