Album review: Petrol Girls – Baby

Petrol Girls embody what it means to be a great punk band. For a decade, the Graz, Austria-based quartet have been making aggressive, pissed-off music that rallies against social and political injustice, taking aim at issues including immigration, women’s rights and sexual violence. Intelligence has always belied Petrol Girls’ anger, whether that’s in the articulate way in which vocalist Ren Aldridge presents her lyrics, or the unpredictable approach the band at large take to constructing their songs, and on Baby – their third LP – they once more put the world to rights in riotous fashion. There’s a strong argument to be made that this is the band’s best work yet. Opening track Preachers will delight those familiar with Petrol Girls’ dissonant and chaos-driven brand of ...

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