London punks Petrol Girls are streaming their three-track ‘Some Thing’ EP in full. The record will be released on the 19th February 2016, and includes the recently unveiled ‘Slug’ single.
“‘Slug’ was written in January 2015 and was initially about depression and alienation,” the band explain of the lead track. “Over the past year however the meaning of the song developed, particularly after Ren began spending time in the unofficial refugee camp in Calais. These are the walls these are the words, I can see them forming blocks around my days. Depression, alienation, borders – somehow it all connects in a problematic, messy way.”
“The video, put together by Andrew Northop, loosely draws some of these ideas together, using the technique of datamoshing to emphasize ideas of alienation and distance. Some of the footage was taken on Ren’s phone during her time in Calais and while she travelled across the border between France and the UK. The beginnings of Ren’s art project, cutting up national flags and rearranging them by color also features. The way the video collages together different ideas reflects the way the song was written in the first place, and maybe it’s this loose approach that allows both the song and video to retain political potency, demanding questions of those who encounter them.”
Petrol Girls have confirmed a number of mainland European tour dates, alongside Austrian punks Ants.
MARCH
09 LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA Klub Gromca
10 INNSBRUCK, AUSTRIA Innsbruck @ Decentral
11 ZURICH, SWITZERLAND Ebrietas
12 ULM, GERMANY Hemperium
13 MARIBOR, SLOVENIA Dvorana Gustaf