Murder Capital: the next Irish band to make a splash

Powerful, technical, visceral. We’re betting on it: they’re the next Irish band to make a splash. Murder Capital was born in 2018 from the meeting between James McGovern (vocals), Damien Tuit (guitar), Cathal Roper (guitar/keyboards), Gabriel Paschal Blake (bass) and Diarmuid Brennan (drums) in Dublin. They take their first steps in the name of their countrymen and friends Fontaines DCwhich greatly inspired them. Their new album “Blindness” will be released on Friday 21 Februaryhave recently released their new single “Words Lost Meaning”, new excerpt after the previous “Can’t Pretend To Know”. “Before us, in our immediate field of vision, are the things we can touch, the love we can feel. Then there’s everything else. Blindness is a distorted belief. The behind us. The block. Long distance love. Faith denied. Deviated patriotism. The faded face of moments in the rear view. Blindness brings everything into focus,” said James McGovern.

“Blindness” is a vivid and ambitious album, important and full of energy. It is full of geography because it was born from the mind of a Dublin-born band whose members are now spread across Ireland, London and Europe, yet it bursts with the intense energy of a synergistic project realized in three weeks of studio work in Los Angeles. Consisting of 11 tracks, it is the follow-up to the acclaimed “Gigi’s Recovery” and their debut album, 2019’s “When I Have Fears”. “Blindness” comes after years of extensive touring, was recorded in Los Angeles with Grammy-winning producer John Congleton, with whom the band had previously worked on “Gigi’s Recovery,” and the songs were composed quickly, in sessions that prioritized urgency, energy and freshness. “John asked us not to demo or layer the songs, but to record everything on the phone. That way, when we got to the studio, no song was stifled by what it needed to be, it was about what the song could become,” continued frontman James McGovern. Speaking of new song “Words Lost Meaning”again James says: “It’s the place where love goes to die. When the words ‘I love you’ are used without thought, without feeling, even as a way to end a conversation, they become stale and diffuse. No word means more than those two put together”.

Fresh from a European tour with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Murder Capital have also revealed the dates of their European tour which will stop in Italy on May 5th for a single date at Alcatraz in Milanor. Those who had the opportunity to attend Cave’s last live show at the Forum have already been able to admire all their intensity, having also opened that date. 2023 was a breakthrough year for The Murder Capital: their acclaimed second album, “Gigi’s Recovery” reached number one in the charts in Ireland and the top 20 in the UK. The band embarked on its largest tour of the United States and performed at several festivals around the world, including Coachella, Glastonbury and Rock En Seine. Their “Clown’s Reflection Tour” was a huge success and culminated in a sold out 3Olympia Theater in Dublin. More recently, before being blessed by Nick Cave, the group supported Pearl Jam in the UK and Europehitting some of the biggest stages of his career to date. The band has found its own sound, going beyond the boundaries of a certain rock and the new post punk scene. And now she is ready for the definitive big leap.