Hot on the heels of news of a new release from Fontaines D.C. comes this from our other favourite Dublin band, The Murder Capital. Their new Live From BBC Maida Vale EP, features their full March live session for Annie Mac at Radio 1, one of the last put down to tape at Maida Vale before the pandemic. Leading with the band’s spectral cover of … Continue reading The Murder Capital Release Live From BBC Maida Vale EP
And here we have the final part of our favourite tunes of 2019… Discover and enjoy. 25 UV Race – Mr Blame A brash, unapologetic race through proto-punk stomp and malodorous glam-punk aesthetics. 24 Lonesome Shack – The City is a Desert Anchored by an insistent country blues refrain that has a touch of something primal about it, and sounds like it could … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 3)
50 Sleaford Mods – O.B.C.T 49 Deliluh – Freeloader Feast 48 The Paranoyds – Hungry Sam 47 Cherry Pickles – Lily Is A Spy 46 The Warlocks – Disfigured Figure 45 Silverbacks – Pink Tide 44 Marika Hackman – The One 43 Lonesome Shack – Too Bad 42 FEWS – Anything Else 41 Darrin Bradbury … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Best Songs of 2019 (Part 2)
We’ve decided to do things a bit differently this year – too many times in the past we’ve posted our favourite songs of the year and then discovered late releases we wished we’d added! And also 2019 was a shit year for the world – Brexit, Johnson, Trump, the world burning… at least there is music. So, way after everyone else has done theirs, here … Continue reading Mad Mackerel’s Songs of 2019 (Part 1)
The Murder Capital have been deservedly generating lots of interest and plaudits with the propulsive post-punk darkness of their first two singles, both from their forthcoming debut album When I Have Fears, which will be released on 16th August via Human Season Records. The Dublin band have now shared a third, the anthemic Don’t Cling To Life. Another cracker – watch the video below and pre-order the … Continue reading New From The Murder Capital
Green & Blue will be released by up and coming Irish band The Murder Capital as a limited 12″ single on June 14th via Human Season Records. We’ve already shared their brilliant Feeling Fades single, and this is another wonderfully foreboding record – all sinewy, coiled tenseness that barely lets up its stranglehold over six minutes of taut guitar rumble and brooding vocals. It’s great stuff! … Continue reading The Murder Capital – Green & Blue
There must be something in the water over in Ireland – following on from the excellent Fontaines DC and Silverbacks, we now have some intense, brooding post-punk from Dublin’s The Murder Capital. New single Feeling Fades is a song with menace aforethought… Have a listen. Continue reading The Murder Capital – Feeling Fades
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