The Murder Capital have launched ‘Ethel’, the third single from their upcoming second album ‘Gigi’s Recovery‘, and with it a music video.
The Irish post-punkers returned this summer time with ‘Only Good Things‘ and followed it up with September’s ‘A Thousand Lives’. Now, ‘Ethel’ hears the group at their most momentous, replete with a surrealist Maxim Kelly-directed video.
Director Kelly mentioned of the video: “Initially I assumed ‘Ethel’ must be the principle character and do the dance on the finish, and I at all times had this picture from this French movie known as My American Uncle. Where it’s like somewhat woman standing up at a desk.
“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 like surreal so then as I started finding more imagery, it kind of transpired that maybe the maid was the more interesting character.”
‘Gigi’s Recovery’ is launched on January 20 through Human Season Records (pre-order right here). See the tracklist beneath:
01. ‘Existence’
02. ‘Crying’
03. ‘Return My Head’
04. ‘Ethel’
05. ‘The Stars Will Leave Their Stage’
06. ‘Belonging’
07. ‘The Lie Becomes The Self’
08. ‘A Thousand Lives’
09. ‘We Had To Disappear’
10. ‘Only Good Things’
11. ‘Gigi’s Recovery’
12. ‘Exist’
The group head out on a tour in February – head right here for the total record of dates.
Reviewing the band’s debut 2019 album ‘When I Have Fears’, NME wrote: “The Murder Capital arrive as the most recent in a brand new, hungry line of Irish rock bands giving the nation – and its capital of Dublin particularly – a brand new repute as a hotbed of vicious guitar music. The band’s debut single ‘Feeling Fades’, launched at the beginning of the yr, noticed them peddle the same form of brazen post-punk as their fast-rising contemporaries Fontaines DC.
“On debut album ‘When I Have Fears’, though, it’s proven to be just one piece of the band’s jigsaw, fitting in to a record that’s rich, emotional and huge in scope.”