New Music Friday has brought the release of The Murder Capital’s long-awaited second album Gigi’s Recovery – stream it and revisit our review right here.
“Comparisons can be the sincerest form of flattery, or they can do harm.”
“When The Murder Capital first emerged in 2019 they were almost immediately tagged in the same space as fellow Dubliners Fontaines D.C., but whilst sharing a city, attentive listening revealed as many differences as much as there was some obvious kinship.”
“Similar lazy analogies have often been made between Yard Act and The Fall, but the quintet – five people brought together at college with the specific goal of making music – were, on their debut album When I Have Fears, as much about mood and texture as go-ahead songwriting.”
“Live, vocalist James McGovern proved a magnetic, physical leader who at the climax of shows would often throw himself into the audience.”
“All those connections were broken soon after when all five members found themselves pandemically isolated together in the Irish countryside as they set about making Gigi’s Recovery.”