Passionate, visceral and powerful, the new Dublin band’s follow-up to 2019’s When I Have Fears builds on their promise, aswirl with stark emotion, packed with strong perspectives and carefully hewn sounds in a journey of introspection, self-analysis and defiance. Frontman James McGovern’s voice is more theatrical - soaring, angry then whispering (eg. on Belonging) - than that of punchy but also distinctive fellow Dubliner Grian Chatten of Fontaines D.C., and there is also clear water between their band styles. The Murder Capital seems to occupy darker, more intimate territory, with a range of twinkling and strange synth sounds as well as explosive, searing guitars, and other jittery acoustic strings as shown by the slow, menacing, gradually building opener Existence. Other standouts include A Thousand Lives, Return My Head, The Stars Will Leave Their Stage, the title track. and Only Good Things. Dynamic, passionate, intelligent, an LP that grows on each listen. Out on Human Season Records.
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