“Post-punk has been a fruitful genre for many a young band in recent years, with careers sustained by sounding like a facsimile of Joy Division. Dublin-based quintet the Murder Capital are surely familiar with that ensemble, and some of Diarmuid Brennan’s staccato drum beats would fit snugly on Unknown Pleasures. However, the band’s palette draws on decades of the genre, stretching from early lumin”
“There’s something coming. For months there have been rumblings about “this Irish band” The Murder Capital. With just one song publicly linked to their name, they packed out an early London show on the strength of rumours and hearsay; that rare moment when somebody knew somebody, who knew somebody else who said it was not to be missed, and all down the chain of command people actually listened. By ”
“The Murder Capital arrive as the latest in a new, hungry line of Irish rock bands giving the country – and its capital of Dublin in particular – a new reputation as a hotbed of vicious guitar music. The band’s debut single ‘Feeling Fades’, released at the start of the year, saw them peddle a similar kind of brazen post-punk as their fast-rising contemporaries Fontaines DC. On debut album ‘When I H”
“The Murder Capital make the personal universal on impressive debut”
