SINGLE PREMIERE: Port Royal - Get Heavy

Brissy four-piece Port Royal have only been a band for a year-and-a-half or so, but they're already turning out tunes of a calibre that far exceeds their relative youth and inexperience.

Their latest high-octane jam, Get Heavy — proudly premiering on theMusic.com.au today — follows on from their 2016 debut EP, The Express as the first taste of the next step in the band's evolution. Recorded by QUT engineer James See, with mixing by the legendary Magoo (Midnight Oil, Powderfinger, a bunch of others) and mastering by Tony 'Jack The Bear' Mantz (Nick Cave, Powderfinger), the track is a scorching homage to the likes of The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, stuffed to the brim with youthful energy, adventurism and reckless abandon.

In some ways, it's a small miracle we even got to hear it, given that their previous lead guitarist bailed on the band midway through the recording process, so be sure to revel in it appropriately.

The lyrics, delivered with rough-edged, devilish delight by frontman Lawson Doyle, are a reflection of the chaotic coming-of-age that is adolescence, set against an instrumental background that harks back to the glory days of rock'n'roll to craft a thoroughly enjoyable song that takes its fundamental inspiration from "the frustrations and experiences of adolescence: no money, late nights, broken hearts, and substance experimentation", Doyle says.

"Many of the verse lyrics refer to insane situations and stories from different people in my life, and was written at a time where I began to understand the chaos and confusion of growing up," Doyle said.

The track will be released officially this Friday, 17 March, with a matinee launch show to follow the next day at Brisbane's Foundry Records (all ages) before they hit Greaser — their recent residency stomping ground — on Saturday night.

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