The Murder Capital playing Great Escape Festival 2023 (Graham Noble for Live4ever)
The Murder Capital continue our coverage from this year’s Great Escape Festival.
The Murder Capital, Spyres, Lizze Esau, Modern Love, Snake Eyes, Sprints, Lambrini Girls and The Luka State were some of the Friday highlights at Great Escape Festival 2023.
Murder Capital were in Brighton after the release of their long-awaited second studio album Gigi’s Recovery a little earlier this year.
“What lies between – and beneath – them is a complex, literate, non-linear journey that shows remarkable songwriting dexterity for what is after all only the band’s second release,” our 8.5/10 review reads.
Throughout, it’s never quite what you might expect it to be, from the eerie looped sample used in Crying (taken from a video tutorial on opera singing) to the lo-fi electronics of The Stars Will Leave Their Stage, a song written about ignoring other people’s expectations and relying on your instincts.
“On that and at many other points the influence of post-The Bends Radiohead is evident. Under this skin Belonging is guitar-less, whilst the album’s title-track runs to what once might have been considered an indulgent near-six minutes, gently traversing the contours of post punk as if McGovern and co. are like tourists revisiting some home country now turned strange.”
