Green & Blueby The Murder Capital

Sharing a practice space with fellow Dubliners Fontaines DC and also taking encouragement from neighbours Girl Band, it'd be easy to lump The Murder Capital into a Dublin 'scene'. But rather than producing a factory line of carbon copies, the city is instead fostering an inclusive, supportive network that's spawning fantastic new bands from every corner of the guitar music spectrum. "I remember when Fontaines signed to Partisan," states James. "I remember feeling a sense of pride for them, and then also it made [the idea of success] so close to home, and a realistic prospect. That's what the scene is: it's watching and pushing each other, with a fire under our arse at all times." bit.ly

Sharing a practice space with fellow Dubliners Fontaines DC and also taking encouragement from neighbours Girl Band, it'd be easy to lump The Murder Capital into a Dublin 'scene'. But rather than producing a factory line of carbon copies, the city is instead fostering an inclusive, supportive network that's spawning fantastic new bands from every corner of the guitar music spectrum. "I remember when Fontaines signed to Partisan," states James. "I remember feeling a sense of pride for them, and then also it made [the idea of success] so close to home, and a realistic prospect. That's what the scene is: it's watching and pushing each other, with a fire under our arse at all times." bit.ly

The Murder Capital is playing nearby in Vancouver, BC at WISE Hall on Tuesday, April 7th. bit.ly

Your #80 album of 2019!

Debut from this Dublin band. themurdercapital.com

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Post punk from Dublin, Ireland. themurdercapital.com

Debut album from Irish post punk band out of Dublin. themurdercapital.com

The Murder Capital are an Irish post-punk band from Dublin. The band began performing together in 2015, and signed with Human Season Records in 2018 before releasing their first singles in 2019.[1] On 16 August 2019, The Murder Capital released their debut studio album, "When I Have Fears", which was produced by Flood.

Writing for The Guardian, Damien Morris described the Irish band as "reaching back to Joy Division’s drum tattoos, interlocking with surging, wave-break bass. Pixies' quiet-loud-quiet trick is in there, as are Shame and Savages, while PJ Harvey and the Bad Seeds infest tracks such as Green and Blue."

In describing the themes of their music, the band expressed eagerness for improvement in their home town: "It just feels like there are loads of fuckin' hotels going up over Dublin, where there could be new housing," James hammers home. "There are cranes all over the city. There's one on George's Street right now, and they're gutting this beautiful Georgian house, and I stopped and asked the builder what it was gonna be, and it's turning into a fuckin' Premier Inn." The band further said, "the hotels are only a sidenote to the homelessness, the suicide, the mental health issues. The lack of services available to people who aren't from even middle class backgrounds," he continues. "We just wanna talk about it as much as possible, and make sure that the government knows that we're not happy with the standard of where it's at. People have real issues in their lives, and they need somewhere to go and talk about these things beyond their friends and families. It feels like there's no excuses. I know bad things that have happened to people that were avoidable." bit.ly

Post-punk band outta Dublin.

You might think that the Murder Capital is from Santa Carla, CA but nope it's Dublin silly! themurdercapital.com

Debut album from Irish post-punk band.

This Dublin band’s debut album is a promising set of tension-filled post-punk ranging from feral, driving punk to brooding, atmospheric ballads. // Watch the music video for this track here: bit.ly

Idles frontman Joe Talbot deemed The Murder Capital, “soon to be the best band in Europe.”

Debut record from this Dublin band. themurdercapital.com

This is only the second single to be released from this Irish band!

Debut album from this Dublin five piece band. Green & Blue explores the wrenching aftermath of a friend's suicide. themurdercapital.com