Petrol Girls Release New Single

Post-hardcore/punk rock quartet Petrol Girls has unleashed Preachers, their third single from the upcoming full-length album. You can listen to the single HERE

The band released an official statement on their Facebook page:

It’s the first song on our new album – BABY – which comes out in 10 days!!! This track really showcases the stripped back, playful musical direction of this album, which we can’t bloody wait to share with you all!

Lyrically, Preachers is my way of kicking back at this preachy, saintly, holier-than-thou vibe you get sometimes in radical left communities. I get very frustrated by the lack of nuance sometimes, and the way people seem so much more interested in punishing individuals than building resilient communities of care. And I hate the way that women and marginalised genders are held to such a way higher standard than cis-men.

I’m absolutely not saying that we shouldn’t criticise each other or that we should let things like sexual violence slide. But I think we have a lot of questions to ask ourselves collectively in terms of how we deal with harm, conflict, and abuse, and differentiate between them. I’ve been learning so much about transformative justice, which is where abolitionist politics and activism against gender based violence really come together, and was very inspired by Adrienne Maree Brown’s book ‘We Will Not Cancel Us’.

I also just really needed to reject this pressure to always act and speak completely perfectly, which has had a severe impact on my mental health by putting me in a constant state of hyper-vigilance and piling up alongside other pressures to make me mentally collapse. For me, our new album is so much about recovering from that severe depressive episode, and a crucial part of that was saying fuck it, I will never do enough, I will always make mistakes, but as long as I am true to my values and reflective that’s fucking fine.