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The Murder Capital announce new album ‘Blindness’, share new track ‘Words Lost Meaning’
Listen to ‘Words Lost Meaning’ here
‘Blindness’ will be released Friday 21st February
New tour dates announced
The Murder Capital have announced their new album ‘Blindness’ will be released on Friday 21st February. Alongside this announcement the band have shared the latest track ‘Words Lost Meaning’. Listen here.
“There’s what’s in front of us, in our immediate field of vision. There are the things we can touch, the love we can feel. Then there’s everything else. Blindness is the warped belief. The behind us. The secluded. Love at a distance. Faith in denial. Distorted patriotism. The fading face of moments in the rear view. Blindness brings it all into focus.” – James McGovern
‘Blindness’ is the vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album from The Murder Capital. A record that’s both momentous and charged with momentum. That’s full of geography – of the mind, and of a Dublin-formed band whose members are now scattered around Ireland, London and Europe – yet bristles with the intense energy of an album finely wrought in three pacy weeks in the studio in Los Angeles. That’s intimate and simultaneously expansive. Eleven songs that don’t hang about in terms of grabbing the listener. It follows the critically acclaimed ‘Gigi’s Recovery’ and their debut album, 2019’s ‘When I Have Fears’.
‘Blindness’ finds the band re-energised after previous years of heavy touring after recording the album in LA with the Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton who the band previously worked with on ‘Gigi’s Recovery’. The tracks came together quickly, in intense and fast paced sessions that prioritized urgency, energy and freshness. “He wanted us not to start layering any tracks or anything like that, just phone-record everything. That was so that, by the time we got to the studio, no song was suffocated by what it needed to be. It was more about what the song could be.” says frontman James McGovern.
With the new track ‘Words Lost Meaning’, The Murder Capital are revealing their most anthemic track to date, and follows the release of previous razor-sharp single ‘Can’t Pretend To Know’. James talks about the track –
“’Words Lost Meaning’ is where love goes to die. When the words “I love you” are used without thought, without feeling, even as a way to close a conversation, they become stale and diffused. No words mean more than those three combined.”
Having just come off tour with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds across Europe, The Murder Capital today reveal their own headline EU tour dates. These come alongside the previously announced UK and Aus/NZ shows.
‘Blindness’ tracklisting
Moonshot
Words Lost Meaning
Can’t Pretend To Know
A Distant Life
Born Into The Fight
Love Of Country
The Fall
Death Of A Giant
Swallow
That Feeling
Trailing A Wing
Aus/NZ –
March 31, 2025 – Wellington, San Fran
April 1, 2025 – Auckland, Tuning Fork
April 3, 2025 – Melbourne, The Corner
April 4, 2025 – Brisbane, Brightside
April 5, 2025 – Sydney, Crowbar
April 7, 2025 – Perth, The Rosemount
UK –
April 17, 2025 — Birmingham, XOYO Birmingham
April 18, 2025 — Manchester, New Century Hall
April 19, 2025 — Glasgow, Saint Luke’s
April 21, 2025 — Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
April 22, 2025 — Leeds, Brudenell Social Club
April 24, 2025 — London, Outernet London
April 26, 2025 — Bristol, SWX
EU –
April 29, 2025 – Lisbon, LAV
April 30, 2025 – Porto Auditorio CCOP
May 2, 2025 – Madrid, Sala Copernico
May 3, 2025 – Barcelona, Sala Razzmatazz
May 5, 2025 – Milan, Alcatraz
May 6, 2025 Zurich, Bogen F
May 8, 2025 – Munich, Backstage
May 9, 2025 – Prague, MeetFactory
May 10, 2025 – Berlin, Gretchen
May 11, 2025 – Cologne, Gebaude 9
May 13, 2025 – Brussels, Ancienne Belgique
May 14, 2025 – Nijmegen, Doornroosje
May 15,2025 – Amsterdam, Melkweg- MAX
May 17, 2025 – Paris, Le Trianon
The Murder Capital are:
James McGovern – vocals
Damien Tuit – guitars / sampler
Cathal Roper – guitars / keys
Gabriel Paschal Blake – bass
Diarmuid Brennan – drums
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My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. Without both i have pieces missing, thankfully i’m blessed and get to combine both.
Born in Manchester, lived in Australia for 22 years where i was heavily involved in the Australian Music Industry, firstly in bands (Singer) and then managing bands (all original), I moved back to the UK, Wales specifically 10 years ago
