CHASE PETRA’s music has always been about growth: growing up, growing out, growing tired of what others expect of you. The Long Beach, CA trio have used that metamorphic mindset – along a stirring blend of rock, emo and pop on their debut album, 2019’s Liminal – to establish themselves as one of the underground’s most exciting new acts.

It’s their sense of figuring things out in real time that makes vocalist/guitarist Hunter Allen, drummer Evan Schaid and bassist Brooke Dickson so relatable, as the band’s “quarter-life-crisis pop” elevates deep introspection to navigate the messiness that comes with modern life. The band’s new single, “Centrifugal Force” (Wax Bodega), continues this quest atop theatrical, bass-heavy grooves, grappling with what it means to grow up and be grown up, to see your once-bright dreams dulled by the responsibilities of adulthood.