The Murder Capital

Ardent Post-Punk Team THE MURDER CAPITAL Confirm Huge Potential With 2nd LP ‘GIGI’S RECOVERY’

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Standout longplayers

20 January 2023

Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish, Dublin-based post-punk team

The Murder Capital made an instant impact with their 2019 debut
full-length When I Have Fears. They promise to do the same with
the follow-up LP GIGI’S RECOVERY will turn up on 20th January 2023.

James McGovern (frontman/lyricist) said to NME: “We’ve only got one record,
so there’s a lot left to write about. I feel like the sky’s the limit, really. When I strip
it all away though, my writing is just an endeavour to empathise, whether that’s
with myself or with others. To me, being vulnerable is at the forefront of what I do,
to allow other people to actually relate to or project upon whatever it is I’m expressing.
Love is a face at the party that you can’t really ignore.”


(James McGovern – photo by Turn Up The Volume – Pukkelpop Fest 2022)

NME: The Dublin band soar with an uncompromising second album loaded with heart and ideas. The Murder Capital may have arrived with a shout and a fist but they’re soaring now with nuance, ideas, a whole lot of heart and the first great guitar album of 2023. Anger is an energy, but love is strength. Score: 4/5.

TUTV: Piercing, deep-cutting emotions drenched in a capricious post-punk bath,
with hope and a future emerging in the end. Their star will rise way up with this
arousing opus.

Singles/clips: Ethel / ReturnMy Head / Only Good Things

– ETHEL –

– RETURN MY HEAD –

– ONLY GOOD THINGS –

Full album

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Tour 2023

THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook – Instagram

British Post-Punks THE MURDER CAPITAL Detail New Album And Share Third Single ‘ETHEL’

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New striking strokes

19 November 2022

Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish, Dublin-based post-punk squad

New single: ETHEL

The Murder Capital made an instant impact with their 2019 debut
full length When I Have Fears. They promise to do the same with
the follow-up LP GIGI’S RECOVERY will turn up on 20th January 2023.

James McGovern (frontman/lyricist) said to NME: “We’ve only got one record,
so there’s a lot left to write about. I feel like the sky’s the limit, really. When I strip
it all away though, my writing is just an endeavour to empathise, whether that’s
with myself or with others. “To me, being vulnerable is at the forefront of what I do,
to allow other people to actually relate to or project upon whatever it is I’m expressing.
Love is a face at the party that you can’t really ignore.”

Listen to the third single – a moony musing – here…

All 3 singles

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Tour 2023

THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook – Instagram

PUKKELPOP FESTIVAL Belgium 2022 – Here Comes TURN UP THE VOLUME’S Top 5

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27 August 2022

Last Saturday at the 4-day Pukkelpop Festival (Belgium) was
the one that made me forget the tiredness and the smelliness
on a hot summer day.

Here’s TUTV’s top 5

Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish brats from Dublin, looking/moving like brats, but my oh my,
these brats were brilliant. Oh I forget, those porno mustaches have to go.
Album: WHEN I HAVE FEARS

More! More! More!

THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: WET LEG
Who: Two utterly cool songstresses.
This year’s sensation.
Album: WET LEG (2022)

Believe the hype. What? Believe the hype!

WET LEG: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: KILLS BIRDS
Who: Hefty post-punk-grunge trio from
California with an amazing bird in the middle.
Foo fighter Dave Grohl is a big fan.
Albums: KILLS BIRDS (2019) and MARRIED

Yes! Great find!

KILLS BIRDS: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: SHAME
Who: Post-punk fury from London
Albums: Drunk Tank Pink (2021)
and debut Songs Of Praise (2018)

Concrete frenzy!

SHAME: Facebook – Instagram
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Band: DE STAAT
Who: Dutch wham bam droners
Albums: 6 – discography here

Here comes the witch doctor!

DE STAAT: Facebook – Instagram

Irish Post-Punk Indies THE MURDER CAPITAL Back With ‘ONLY GOOD THINGS’

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New striking strokes

28 July 2022


(Press photo by Grayce Leonard)

Band: THE MURDER CAPITAL
Who: Irish post-punk squad from Dublin, Ireland

FFO: Black Midi, Fontaines D.C., Black Country New Road, Crows

It’s already 3 years since the Irishmen made a profound
impression with their debut LP When I Have Fears.

The good thing is they’re back now with a new single (new albums not confirmed yet).

James McGovern (frontman): “This track for us has been an exciting evolution for the band. It’s so bright. It’s so colorful. This is a part of the narrative of the overall record that we feel reaches a real place of inner calm, inner peace but at its core, it’s a love song. You get a song like this where, the protagonist in this song is quite simply asking – not pleading – just willing to ask their counterpart to rid them of their intrusive thoughts, the devils on their shoulders and to be truly vulnerable. We’re so excited to go to a place like this because perhaps it’s not what is expected of us. It stood out to me during the creation of this record that it is more about the friends that are still here and celebrating those connections, those relationships and being unafraid of life and it’s many seasons. Where ‘Only Good Things’ stands within the record is
at a moment where the sonic and the lyrical narrative especially, are of newfound joy.”

Tune in…

THE MURDER CAPITAL: Facebook

TURN UP THE VOLUME’s 15 Knockout Tracks Of 2019…

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The following 15 Knockout Tracks activated my limbs, impressed
my greedy ears and made me move in mysterious ways in 2019.

1. ‘Better’ by RICH GIRLS ((New York, NY, US)
A punchy and mesmeric shot of electrifying guitar pop adrenalin…


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2. ‘Feet’ by FAT WHITE FAMILY (London, UK)
A chant-like odyssey with a ghostly and hypnotic vibe and – yes – a Gregorian choir…

3. ‘Air BnB’ by KIM GORDON (US)
A battering jackhammer with a vehement drift and a gloomy impact…

4. ‘Hurricane Laughter’ by FONTAINES D.C. (Dublin, Ireland)
Stormy steamroller with an irresistible punk drive by one of the best new bands in town…

5. ‘White Male Carnivore’ by YAK (London, UK)
This is a really nasty sledgehammer. A thunderous rocker with a droning force…

6. ‘Going Norway’ by GIRL BAND (Dublin, Ireland)
Bone-crushing chainsaw electricity and exorcistic howling. Demonic stuff…

7. ‘More Is Less’ by THE MURDER CAPITAL (Dublin, Ireland)
A dazzling post punk uppercut fueled with stormy guitars and angry vocals all over it…

8. ‘Cave Person’ by PEUK (Belgium)
A sickly catchy, grungy outburst with the scariest primal screams I heard in years…

9. ‘Destiny’ by PRYSM (England)
A multi-layered tumultuous stunner that grabs you by the throat from the get-go…

10. ‘Time Bomb Sounds’ by THE LOCALS (Chicago, US)
An emotional corker resonating gloriously rapturous and exultantly epic…

11. ‘Motor City Steel’ by THE DANDY WARHOLS
An utterly addictive earworm that keeps buzzing in your head after one spin…

12. ‘Disco Peanuts’ by WARMDUSCHER (London, UK)
Funky disco fuel for all misfits, outsiders, and desperadoes out there…


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13. ‘Ar.Mour’ by UNKLE Feat. Miink & Elliot Power (UK)
Trip-hop at its trippy best. Tantalizing beats, dancey vibrations, and an addictive rhythm…


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14. ‘Ego’ by FERAL FIVE (London/Kent, UK)
A vibrating and flamboyant European disco cracker to dance yourself dizzy to…

15. ‘The Desert’ by WHERE WE SLEEP (London, UK)
Intoxicating swagger, sensuous vocals, hellish guitars, cutting atmosphere…


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All 15 Knockout Tracks
together on Spotify…

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