He comes to it honestly. Four years old and already singing, nine and already at the piano, a run of YouTube covers behind him before he decided to say something in his own words — the apprenticeship shows, not as polish but as instinct. You can hear a pianist's patience in how "Fear" is built: intricate, unhurried figures laid down first, percussion arriving in taps rather than crashes, a haze of synth drifting in underneath before his voice ever enters. It's a curiously mature way to open a debut single. Plenty of grown adults reach for the chorus in the first eight bars because they don't trust a listener to wait. Peter clearly does.

And the wait pays off. Once the vocal arrives, it sits inside that atmosphere rather than fighting it, and the song's structure does the rest of the work: stripped, almost confessional verses giving way to choruses that widen out into something genuinely anthemic, guitars roughening from clean to crunching without ever losing the melodic thread underneath. That's a grunge instinct — the Cobain-via-Cornell trick of a song being quiet because it's saving its violence — filtered through an ear that's clearly spent time with indie rock's more melodic, more forgiving side. The combination gives "Fear" a cinematic pull. It doesn't just build; it seems to know where it's going, which is rarer than it sounds in a first single, let alone one written by someone who's been a teenager for all of a few months.

None of this would matter much if the song didn't also just move. The push and pull between restraint and release across its runtime is the kind of dynamic control bands spend albums learning, and Peter's got there on song one, learning piano and guitar himself, writing his own words rather than someone else's. Whatever fear the title refers to — stage fright, self-doubt, the ordinary dread of being thirteen and full of feelings you don't have language for yet — he's turned it into a decent tune rather than a diary entry, and that transformation is the whole trick of songwriting.

The video, from what a debut visual is built to do, exists to put a face to the voice: to let people see the kid behind the piano before they've decided what to make of him. That's a strange kind of introduction to make to the world at thirteen, but "Fear" earns it. It doesn't sound like a hobby. It sounds like the first single of somebody who intends to have a second, a third, and eventually a body of work worth arguing about — which, from a debut, is about the highest compliment going.

More tracks are apparently already on the way. On this evidence, that's very good news.