Irish Indie/ Put up Punk band Petrel soar on their searing debut single, Current Situation.
Petrel – Current Situation
Lengthy-time readers of Proper Chord Music will keep in mind our love of the band Slyrydes. Petrel is the brand new aspect mission of guitarist Eoin Reilly, and it’s instantly thrilling.
Recorded in Dublin within the early half of 2025 and produced by Darragh Winters. Current Situation is constructed round jagged guitar textures, busy basslines, pounding drums, and stark, poetic lyricism.
It is a great introduction to Petrel and completely captures the band’s uncooked dynamic vitality 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 supply a softer sound to Slyrydes and manages to expertly stability noise and melody. Followers of early post-punk and different indie will rapidly discover one thing to like right here.
Petrel are a four-piece that fashioned this yr, however every member brings years of firepower from deep inside the Irish underground. Think about 4 frontmen in a single room.
Their identify is drawn from the storm chook stated to glide simply above crashing waves. It’s an exquisite metaphor for his or her sound: Stressed, intense and all the time transferring ahead. Petrel are instinctive, elemental, earnest, born out of each noise and necessity.
“Our principal purpose with this mission was to actually be us, we went via a couple of lineup modifications and completely different sounds till it felt proper and actual, it was by no means value doing if it wasn’t going to sound actual”
“We felt there are loads 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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