“I can’t be told, I can’t be dressed, I can’t be held, I can’t be fed, I can’t be whipped.” That’s James McGovern breathlessly and brazenly in The Murder Capital’s new powderkeg tune “The Fall,” the Irish post-punk luminaries’ first new music of 2025 and the latest chapter from their forthcoming third album Blindness. The new record is out February 21, and we’ve already absorbed a pair of Fall ’24 tracks, like the neon grayscale glow of “Can’t Pretend To Know” and the gritty, muck-fueled dirge of “Words Lost Meaning”, all harnessing the band’s growingly expansive cacophony. There’s a raw catharsis in these new tracks, and and we expect a full-on exhale of societal tension as The Murder Capital continue to soundtrack our lives on the brink. “‘The Fall’ is coming,” McGovern warns. “The Fall” has arrived.
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