Press photo of The Murder Capital by Grayce Leonard
“‘Return My Head’ was written in a place of pure frustration,” The Murder Capital’s James McGovern has said.
The Murder Capital are previewing Gigi’s Recovery again, this time with Return My Head.
The band are due to release their new LP on January 20th, the long awaited follow-up to their essential debut album When I Have Fears.
“It’s also a journey of absolutes: during the pressure build-and-release valves of opener For Everything the choices are all or nothing, no space or meaning to be found in between,” our review reads.
“At the other end, in waiting lies Love Love Love, on which McGovern feels in numbness neither ecstasy nor despair: ‘In the room where it took place/In the rain, the romance lay/My heart stood still’, the chorus just words without a place to stay. In this desolation, the sheer polarity these songs seem bound to, lies their fascination.”
“Some of this theatre comes from knowing you’re good at what you do. Some of it comes from wanting to make music that’s an abstraction from itself. On When I Have Fears these two are parallel roads which intersect like few, if any, other records will this year.”
