Billy Peril release the third single ‘Tornado’, one of their favourites from their upcoming album, according to the band’s Will Dyer. With bass and jangly guitar in lockstep there’s an energy and nervous tension pushing the song onwards, like Jonathan Richman fronting The Clean.

“How many of life’s biggest events happen around hospitals?” questions Dyer. “This song carries two of them at once: day one of a new but still-unknown love, and a colossal loss that changes lives forever, mostly for the worse.”

Reflecting on that particular moment in time he recalls, “I hear the clang of her folding bike from five floors down as she bundles it into the lift and the mechanism starts to whir. Here she is. Standing outside in the fresh air for a reprieve from the misery of palliative care. The gum tree above drips as a bout of rain passes. Flame to grey.”

Billy Peril is a project in two parts, co-existing under one name.

The first is the live band: a guitar-led pub-pop trio – sometimes a quartet – formed on a winter morning drive when Will Dyer and Steve Harris (Saint Jude) sketched out a plan for a new project, soundtracked by the car stereo’s mix of Comet Gain, The Go-Betweens, and Yo La Tengo.

Harris summoned long-time friend Drew Schapper (Signal Chain, Pretty City) on drums, and the trio began shaping a handful of loose demos Dyer had been developing. Recording sessions with producer Brooke Penrose (Captain B Studios, Saint Jude) followed, evolving from a few planned days into an extended creative stretch. The result is a collection of understated, agile pop songs that carry Peril’s DIY spirit. Rooted in the Antipodean indie tradition there’s jangle, melancholy, and brightness, with melody that wears its heart on its sleeve. Live the songs are lean and keen, conjuring late 70s Aussie pub punk rock without any pretence or nostalgia.

The second side of Billy Peril is a splish-splash of bedroom synth pop, born the day Dyer stole Harris’ shite bass guitar and bought a TR-8 drum machine. Once again, Brooke Penrose’s brilliance behind the desk shines through, shaping the tracks into something sleek yet offbeat – a vibey, lo-fi counterpoint to the live band’s rock ‘ n’ roll.

Together, the two projects trace the range of Billy Peril’s creative universe – from their immediate and varied pop punk to intimate electronic daydreams.