The Murder Capital - Blindness

The Independent: Feature

DIY: Interview

“A lively , career-best-coming-of-age record… Blindness should rightly see these Irishmen advance to the Premier Division.” – MOJO (4/5) 

‘With Blindness, The Murder Capital have crafted and album that feels both urgent and timeless. Simply put, it’s nothing short of a triumph’ – DIY (4.5/5) 

The Murder Capital share ‘Words Lost Meaning’ and talk new album ‘Blindness’: “It’s powerful to be aware of how much you can’t see” Check out the haunting new single as frontman James McGovern tells NME about humanity’s blind spots, the “distorted patriotism” emerging around the world, their feelings on “Irishness” and how Nick Cave reacted to their new stuff – NME

The Murder Capital have announced their forthcoming new album, Blindness, and shared new track, “Words Lost Meaning”. – The Line of Best Fit

It’s a little grimy and grungy, not unlike Mark Lanegan, but still with the strong melodic sense they brought to Gigi’s Recovery. – BrooklynVegan

The Murder Capital cast a careless feeling on ‘Words Lost Meaning’ – Vanyaland

‘Blindness’ is the vividly realised, clear-sightedly ambitious new album from The Murder Capital. A record that’s both momentous and charged with momentum. That’s full of geography – of the mind, and of a Dublin-formed band whose members are now scattered around Ireland, London and Europe – yet bristles with the intense energy of an album finely wrought in three pacy weeks in the studio in Los Angeles. That’s intimate and simultaneously expansive. Eleven songs that don’t hang about in terms of grabbing the listener. It follows the critically acclaimed ‘Gigi’s Recovery’ and their debut album, 2019’s ‘When I Have Fears’.

‘Blindness’ finds the band re-energised after previous years of heavy touring after recording the album in LA with the Grammy-award winning producer John Congleton who the band previously worked with on ‘Gigi’s Recovery’. The tracks came together quickly, in intense and fast paced sessions that prioritized urgency, energy and freshness. “He wanted us not to start layering any tracks or anything like that, just phone-record everything. That was so that, by the time we got to the studio, no song was suffocated by what it needed to be. It was more about what the song could be.” says frontman James McGovern.