The Murder Capital
Dublin based post-punk 5 piece The Murder Capital return with new single Only Good Things.
Speaking on the new single, frontman James McGovern comments: “This track for us has been an exciting evolution for the band. It’s so bright. It’s so colorful. This is a part of the narrative of the overall record that we feel reaches a real place of inner calm, inner peace but at its core, it’s a love song. You get a song like this where, the protagonist in this song is quite simply asking - not pleading - just willing to ask their counterpart to rid them of their intrusive thoughts, the devils on their shoulders and to be truly vulnerable. We’re so excited to go to a place like this because perhaps it’s not what is expected of us. It stood out to me during the creation of this record that it is more about the friends that are still here and celebrating those connections, those relationships and being unafraid of life and it’s many seasons. Where ‘Only Good Things’ stands within the record is at a moment where the sonic and the lyrical narrative especially, are of newfound joy.”
The band also made their live return this year performing at Primavera Sound, VYV Festival and Solidays, as well as opening for Pearl Jam earlier this month at British Summer Time, with further festival dates across the EU / UK still to come.
Live dates
22 July – Truck Festival – Oxford, UK
31 July – All Together Now – Co Waterford, IRE
17 August – Paredes De Coura Festival – Paredes De Coura, PT
19 August – Lowlands Festival – Biddinghuizen, DE
20 August – Pukkelpop – Hasselt, BE
21 August – Green Man Festival – Breacon Beacons, UK
