The Murder Capital have shared their gripping new track ‘The Fall’. Their first new music of 2025. follows the recent releases ‘Can’t Pretend To Know’, ‘Words Lost Meaning’ and ‘Love Of Country’ as they build towards the release of their highly anticipated third album Blindness out on 21st February.
‘The Fall’ ebbs, flows and slices the airwaves with raw sonic intensity and soul-churning shards of poetic truth as The Murder Capital lace searing guitars and cacophonous crescendos into a thrilling, reflective cathartic soundscape.
Frontman James McGovern says –
“I can’t be told, I can’t be dressed, I can’t be held, I can’t be fed, I can’t be whipped. The Fall is coming. The Fall is inevitable. The Fall is one finger over the self destruct button, while the other holds its pose in meditation.
The most recent release ‘Love Of Country’ was a surprise release last month, with the track available as a limited 7” and download only, both available through the band’s website or Bandcamp store. All profits from the sale of the track are being donated to the Medical Aid For Palestinians charity.
‘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.
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.
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Photo credit: Hugo Comte.
‘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
