Irish Indie/ Publish Punk band Petrel soar on their searing debut single, Current Situation.
Petrel – Current Situation
Lengthy-time readers of Proper Chord Music will bear in mind our love of the band Slyrydes. Petrel is the brand new aspect venture 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.
This can be 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 actually 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 steadiness noise and melody. Followers of early post-punk and various 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 throughout the Irish underground. Think about 4 frontmen in a single room.
Their title is drawn from the storm fowl stated to glide simply above crashing waves. It’s an exquisite metaphor for his or her sound: Stressed, intense and at all times shifting ahead. Petrel are instinctive, elemental, earnest, born out of each noise and necessity.
“Our principal purpose with this venture was to really be us, we went by a number of lineup adjustments and totally 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 a whole lot of bands out proper now which have a really comparable voice. We didn’t wish 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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