The Murder Capital continue to unveil their second album, ‘
Gigi’s Recovery’, with their new single,
‘Ethel’.
It is the Irish post-punk quintet’s third track of 2022 following two previous singles,
‘Only Good Things’ and
‘A Thousand Lives’, which will both also feature on the record. The full 12-track project is slated to arrive on January 20th via Human Season Records.
Their debut album, ‘
When I Have Fears’, was shared in 2019, with
Dork’s 4-star review describing it as, “a variation on the post-punk theme that even if not entirely new, maintains a certain tenderness amid the noise”.
“The song ‘
Ethel’ is a picture of a crossroads, really, asking you what you want from life,” the band have shared on their latest offering. “Whether you want to continue down a path of chaos, or make a change in your course. It’s showing you what is possible when you make the decisions that bring a sort of cradled warmth into your future. The idea of ‘
Ethel’ is that you can have what you truly desire if you put to rest those short-lived fixes that never bring you any real happiness.”
The Murder Capital’s new track has arrived with a music video accompaniment, directed by Maxim Kelly who shares: “Initially I thought Ethel should be the main character and do the dance at the end, and I always had this image from this French film called My American Uncle. Where it’s like a little girl standing up at a table. I originally had that image in my head for a rap video, but it didn’t really make sense to the song, I wanted this to feel more surreal so then as I started finding more imagery, it kind of transpired that maybe the maid was the more interesting character.”
You can listen to ‘
Ethel’
here, and watch the new music video below:
You can pre-order ‘
Gigi’s Recovery’
here - the full tracklist reads as below:
1. Existence
2. Crying
3. Return My Head
4.
Ethel5. The Stars Will Leave Their Stage
6. Belonging
7. The Lie Becomes the Self
8. A Thousand Lives
9. We Had to Disappear
10. Only Good Things
11. Gigi's Recovery
12. Exist
