Sir Petrol has today premiered her new video for the track titled ‘Enclosed’, from the upcoming album ‘Evil Design’, dropping October 17th via Elefante Rec. Considering Rebecca Magri’s (Sir Petrol) long and storied musical history (details below), this is exactly what I expect from such a valued artist.
The video is a tech-noir piece filled with an artful, clean dystopia that moves without movement and feels without emotion. Electronic at the core and a resonant stage for Rebecca’s vocals.
Polished but weathered, production in the music as well as construction in the lyrics, ‘Evil Design’ is a near-perfect example of an album that takes you for a ride and never gives you that itch to hit the ‘next’ button.
Musical styles cascade and differentiate in such a way that each track has its own unique and signature sound, yet everything fits together like chapters in a good book. The most impressive part, for me, in this first listen of the album is that, as different as the songs sound from each other, there is a common bond that Rebecca infuses in each track that laces them loosely together and makes the album a solid journey from start to finish. This is what music is supposed to be: diverse and accessible.
About ‘Enclosed’
Enclosed is the second single, anticipating Sir Petrol’s eagerly awaited debut album Evil Design, due out October 17th, 2025, on streaming, vinyl, and CD via the independent label Elefante Rec., with digital distribution by Believe Music Italia.
Enclosed is a classy, edgy, and catchy song, with the powerful voice of Sir Petrol’s founder, Rebecca Magri ( Upupayāma, Kaptain Preemo, Ayahuasca), vocalising “What would you say if I declared it all is mine, enclosed in this shrine?”.
The lyrics are about the will to take a stand, claiming what belongs to us, even when it is denied by the world and others.
A perfect example of Sir Petrol’s sonic universe, blending trip rock, psychedelia, electronica, and alt-pop, leaving room for jazz influences and rough, aggressive sounds, counterbalanced by harmonious, velvety vocals.
The track was produced and mixed by Gabriel Medina, aka The Cosmic Gospel.
About Sir Petrol
Sir Petrol is the alter-ego of Rebecca Magri, musician and composer from Parma (Italy), already known as a member of bands such as Upupayāma (Fuzz Club), Kaptain Preemo, and Ayahuasca, and for her collaboration as sitar player with Boris Williams (The Cure).
Rebecca started Sir Petrol in 2024 as her solo project, developing a polished yet accessible sound built on trip rock, psychedelia, and alt-pop, also incorporating jazz contaminations and rough guitar sounds, all tied up by Rebecca’s expressive and mature vocals, which range from velvety and harmonious to acid and fiery.
Sir Petrol can be imagined like a cosmonaut who, from above, beyond the atmosphere, observes the world and notes its evolutions (and involutions).
He studies them, faces them, and judges them.
Each song on the album sounds like a sentence, describing the mood and the feelings unconsciously triggered by watching the world passing by from a distance.
The introspective lyrics explore those complex feelings and the twisted human dynamics that often put individuals at risk.
Sir Petrol herself explains:
“For me, this album was a form of exorcism and denunciation. A necessary psychotherapy to reach a state of individual evolution and a study of today’s society. Songs like Enclosed, Cuts and Guts, and Made Out of Stone delve into the paranoia and lies we tell ourselves; however, I Wanna Look Good Naked, Swallow and Destroy, and Evil Design deal with the external influences imposed by society, standards, and events.”
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