"Being Underwater" is the new single from Pentire, and this indie collective emerged from the green expanses of Herefordshire. It is something quietly breathtaking. This song isn't so much enough to wash over you as to drag you under in an emotional riptide slowly. "Being Underwater" is a book that, from the first note, feels like a long exhale, a slow, considered plunge away from the city's noise and into an enormous unknown.
Written by vocalist Jack Morgan, it's a meditation on escaping the city and chasing life beyond the familiar hum of one's hometown. And that pursuit of something deeper, something more meaningful, is evident in Jack's vocals, which are steeped in sincerity and a hint of longing. He doesn't sing the words, but he lives them, treating every line like a soft-spoken confession.
Inspired by the anthemic polish of The Killers and the streetwise grit of Stereophonics, Pentire embraces their pop-rock roots with a watchful fist. This is a creeping intensity formed around a slow pulse. Soft indie guitars float in the foreground, building on a foundation of purposeful percussion and atmospheric swells that shimmer just beyond reach. But it's the crescendo, raw, unexpected, and utterly earned, that cracks it wide open. It is shattering, in the best way, the emotional release you didn't know you were waiting for.
There is an assuredness in "Being Underwater" that suggests a band finding its form. And the track, which never exactly screams for attention, demands it with a quiet confidence and emotional lucidity that's difficult to ignore. It's the sort of song you go back to on long drives, or when the weight of the world is feeling just a little too heavy. Pulling from their recently released EP, "Love On TV," streaming now and available on vinyl, "Being Underwater" is a centerpiece: thought-provoking, sonically lush, and completely human.
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