Struggles With Syntax - Petrichor - CAS

It’s been a curious year since London group Struggles With Syntax last graced listeners with their EP, UK Garage Floor Fillers Vol. 4.
Gathering together during the pandemic to work on their debut album, Petrichor, earning airplay from Amazing Radio (in particular from presenters/Pigs X7 members Johnny Headley and Mat Batty) and international radio stations, the band also found themselves embroiled with an issue using the word “syntax.”

Petrichor is a term to describe the fresh smell after a rainfall, which the band thought was not only a “cool word” but an apt description of what the album is about and how it was made. A sense of renewal.

Recorded at Gun Factory Studios by Humphreys, Petrichor is a luscious 12 tracks that feels wholly different to their previous EPs as the band looked to take listeners on a journey with each song. Unintentionally influenced by what the band have been through over the last few years, there are moments where semblance of hope and a realisation of a shared humanity that emerges.