News Round-Up: The Murder Capital, Jessie Ware


The Murder Capital by Grayce Leonard

The Murder Capital by Grayce Leonard




Our recap of the main stories we featured during the past seven days includes new music from The Murder Capital and Jessie Ware.

A three-year break after the release of your debut album is worth many lifetimes in this modern musical climate, but The Murder Capital are finally back with their first bit of new music following 2019’s essential When I Have Fears.

Frontman James McGovern has described Only Good Things as an example of the ‘exciting evolution’ which the band has undertaken during their time away, adding light and colour to the weighty monochrome of their maiden record.

“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,” McGovern said.


Manic Street Preachers have split their sixth studio album Know Your Enemy into two parts for a re-release on September 9th.

A record of two distinct sides had been imagined by the band as they began work on the follow-up to 1998’s big commercial hit This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours, but the finished product would ultimately prove to be a somewhat inharmonious combination of those two very disparate ideas.

Now, the more harsher direction of Solidarity and the contemplative Door To The River have been separated as originally intended two decades ago, all remixed and carrying a pair of previously unreleased tracks – Studies In Paralysis and Rosebud.


After going to number one in the UK in 2020 with Manchester Calling, Paul Heaton And Jacqui Abbott have announced their follow-up LP N.K-Pop.

Heaton once again teamed up with John Williams during the recording, the album now set for release on September 30th and trailed with lead track Still.

“I wanted to write a song for folk who have lost a child, whether by miscarriage, stillbirth or in infancy,” Heaton said.

Jessie Ware by Tom Beard

Jessie Ware by Tom Beard

Jessie Ware is looking forward to the start of a ‘new era’ on Free Yourself, the first preview of the singer-songwriter’s fifth studio album.

“It’s the beginning of a new era, and it felt only right to start off with this song I made with the phenomenal Stuart Price and Coffee,” Ware says.

“I have never had so many messages from people being so thrilled I’m working with Stuart. I can confirm, he is excellent, great fun and still loves his disco.”


Beabadoobee has announced more North American tour dates for later this year.

With a handful of concerts coming up there this month, and after a tour of the UK and Ireland during most of October, the new US/Canadian gigs are due to start at 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C..

They’ll continue throughout November and into December, when the final night is scheduled for Roadrunner in Boston.


Titus Andronicus have set their new album The Will To Live for release on September 30th.

Much of the record comes from stark contrasts in Patrick Stickles’ life – the clarity of a healthy mental well-being regimen and a consistent band line-up of Liam Betson, R.J. Gordon and Chris Wilson – and the painful tragedy of Matt ‘Money’ Miller’s passing.

“Certain recent challenges, some unique to myself and some we have all shared, but particularly the passing of my dearest friend, have forced me to recognise not only the precious and fragile nature of life, but also the interconnectivity of all life,” Stickles elaborates.


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