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The Murder Capital release new track ‘A Distant Life’
New album ‘Blindness’ released 21st February
The Murder Capital have shared new track ‘A Distant Life’, the last before the release of the band’s third album ‘Blindness’, released Friday 21st February. The track comes after the band’s spellbinding session on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music show last night, listen back here.
‘A Distant Life’ shows The Murder Capital at their loosest and most melodic. The track swings with an easy beat and captures the five-piece at their most carefree.
Frontman James McGovern –
“I wrote the lyrics for this one in transit to one of the many inspiring service stops on tour in the UK. I’d been listening to a podcast called Poetry Unbound about Margaret Atwood’s poem ‘All Bread’ and felt the urge to write.
“I knew I wanted the music to be naive and unaffected, much like true love itself, so myself and Irv stood outside the back of the venue in Liverpool that evening. I asked him to play two chords back and forth. It all came together in a flash with some added flair from Irv, and in that moment the distance between my girlfriend and I shrunk slightly, if just for a moment.”
It comes after recent single ‘Words Lost Meaning’ hit the A list at BBC 6 Music, continuing the strong support the band have received there.
‘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.
‘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
The Murder Capital will be touring extensively throughout 2025 with string of dates already announced including their biggest Irish headline show so far at Iveagh Gardens. Dates below –
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
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
