#The Murder Capital

[fuckstoevsky]

Piledriver Waltz - Arctic Monkeys // Pitcher, Lemons and Book - Paul Wonner // Nothing Does It - Bridget Kearney // Moon over a Town Street - Kobayashi Kiyochika // Where To Now? - Hippo Campus // Wasteland, Baby! - Hozier // Fishermen at Sea - J.M.W. Turner // Woman with child (Mother and son) - Alberto Sughi // Green and Blue - The Murder Capital

[mazzy-rockstar]

The Murder Capital was touring with Pearl Jam???? Holy shit why did I not know this

[samusique-concrete]

Great album PSA

Folks, i'm here to recommend a fantastic album that completely slipped under my radar last year — talking about The Murder Capital's Gigi's Recovery. I remember me and a friend enjoying their first record back in 2019, When I Have Fears, and thinking it was a grade above most of their post-punk contemporaries (lotta post-punk outta the 2010s, eh?).

Gigi's Recovery, on the other hand, is quite a step forward in terms of their sound, their textures and their themes — one of those albums that have me constantly going 'wait, what?!' when i'm giving it a first listen. I'm absolutely bedazzled by it. Give it a listen! Go!!!

[captawesomesauce]

SYSK... Songs for a Friday Night

This edition of Songs You Should Know is basically a mix of new and recent songs of bands that should be in your rotation if you're a fan of Indie, Post Punk and that whole messy realm of genres that are just outside of the mainstream!

So here are 10 songs, that everyone should absolutely know!

The Clockworks - Feels So Real

Pip Blom - I can be your man

The Murder Capital - Don't Cling to Life

Life - Moral Fibre

Sports Team - The Drop

Wet Leg - Piece of Shit

Bleached - Hard to Kill

Yard Act - The Overload

The Wombats - Flip me Upside Down

The Mysterines - Life's a Bitch (But I Like it So Much)

Videos after the cut

[themissingpatient]

Best of 2023

Prologue by The Album Leaf from Future Falling

Weak In Your Light by Nation of Language from Strange Disciple

This Is Why by Paramore from This Is Why

Sugar Babies by Spoon from Memory Dust EP

Donkey Show by Model/Actriz from Dogsbody

Irreversible Damage (featuring Zack de la Rocha) by Algiers from Shook

Paper Machete by Queens of the Stone Age from In New Times Roman…

Invisible Hand by (Crosses) from Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

Loops by Pile from All Fiction

When we were that what wept for the sea by Colin Stetson from When we were that what wept for the sea

Skel by Sigur Rós from Átta

Return My Head by The Murder Capital from Gigi’s Recovery

In a Room7 F760 by Apex Twin from Blackbox Life Recorder

Light as a Feather by (Crosses) from Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

Lotus Light by Tim Hecker from No Highs

Klettur by Sigur Rós from Átta

Blood by Pile from All Fiction

Dancing with Ghosts (feat. Patrick Watson) by Hania Rani from Ghosts

A Narrow Escape by DJ Shadow from Action Adventure

the ten of swords by Big Brave from nature morte

Bending Hectic by The Smile

(If You Don't Leave) The City Will Kill You (feat. Daedelus) by High Pulp from Days In The Desert

Poisons by Pile from All Fiction

Promise by Laufey from Bewitched

Ghost Ride by (Crosses) from Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete.

Gigi’s Recovery by The Murder Capital from Gigi’s Recovery

3 Summers by Jeff Rosenstock from Hellmode

Green Iris by Algiers from Shook

I Just Met You and You Almost Killed Me by Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete by (Crosses)

[astat3ofgrac3]

The Murder Capital - Don't Cling To Life (Official Video)

[qatos]

A thousand lives by The Murder Capital / Leave me breathless by Cherrie Lynn

[innovacancy]

The Murder Capital The Sinclair, Cambridge, MA 30 March 2023

[maquina-semiotica]

The Murder Capital, "More Is Less" #NowPlaying

[sonicziggy]

"The Stars Will Leave Their Stage" by The Murder Capital https://ift.tt/gbd1YVZ

[upalldown]

The Murder Capital - Gigi’s Recovery

Second full-length album from the Dublin post-punk five-piece

7/13

Dublin post-punk quintet The Murder Capital are back with an exhilarating second record. Unlike their 2019 debut album, When I Have Fears, which was conceived in a matter of months, the follow-up, produced by John Congleton, has had a much longer gestation period of almost two years.

Fresh from being announced to the Coachella line-up, 2023 feels like the year that The Murder Capital could reach that magical tipping point. The performance will be the pinnacle of a 13-date tour of North America this spring. Their first foray into the U.S. was cut short in early 2020 after the pandemic started to break.

The band’s ascension is part of the burgeoning, guitar-fuelled explosion in Ireland with the likes of Belfast’s New Pagans and Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. In fact, The Murder Capital opened for Fontaines D.C. in one of their very early gigs. They may be cut from a similar cloth, however The Murder Capital’s lead singer James McGovern does not quite have the full-on Irish lilt of Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten. Guitarists Cathal Roper and Damien Tuit maintain a steady pace on the record without sonically overreaching.

Latest single “Return My Head” is two minutes and forty-five seconds of sublime energy with the drumming of Diarmuid Brennan at its anthemic core. You just know that this song is going to be a moment of euphoria in their live set. The accompanying video was directed by bass player Gabriel Paschal Blake.

There are also fragments of Julian Casablancas (“Ethel”) and Trent Reznor (“The Stars Will Leave Their Stage”) nicely tucked away in this record. A tribal bassline opens the brilliant “The Lie Becomes The Self,” a musical journey inwards about societal conditioning, deceit, and discovery—“There in the gutter, starlight, we find ourselves complete/Standing at the foot of your mirror, a clown’s reflection and I am revealed.”

Despite the band having clear influences from New York City’s musical underbelly of the early 2000s, The Murder Capital are driving forward bringing their own flavor of youth and urban, Irish grit to this record. Gigi’s Recovery at times feels eerie and unsettling yet consistently and completely alluring.

https://www.undertheradarmag.com/reviews/gigis_recovery_tehe_murder_capital

[musicdiaries]

The Murder Capital - Ethel