LATEST MUSIC FROM BLOWTORCH RECORDS

Petrichor are a new Wicklow four piece who have released their debut single Pious on all digital platforms. Their aim is to compel listeners to feel something new with a fusion of industrial noise and shoegaze backed with massive instrumentation, entrancing melodies and emotive lyrics. All enchanting the heart of darkness.

 

Like any life debut, it opens with a slight hesitancy but soon builds into a confident behemoth of heavy noise. And then like going to the pub after your first day at work, it saves a surprise until the end with its blistering, industrial outro of metallic percussion pierced by electronic distortion.

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Petrichor are a four-piece band from Wicklow formed in November 2022. They are Liam Hughes - guitar and lead vocal, Lu Hope - bass guitar, Ben Verdes - guitar and backing vocals, Harry Richards – drums.

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They reveal: “When we were writing the track Pious we wanted it to have a hectic feel, like it was all over the place but still put together, organised noise in a way. At the time we were heavily inspired by the fusion of electronic industrial music and loud rock, similar to the likes of Gilla Band, Enola Gay, Nerves and Naked Lungs.