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By Dylan Thatcher, Features Editor

The Murder Capital has released their first new song of 2025, “The Fall,” in anticipation of their upcoming album Blindness. This latest track succeeds the band’s previous singles, “Words Lost Meaning”and “Can’t Pretend To Know.”

Describing “The Fall,” frontman James McGovern stated in a press release: “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. The Fall is coming. The Fall is inevitable. The Fall is one finger over the self-destruct button, while the other holds its pose in meditation.”

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“The Fall” captures The Murder Capital’s “sonic intensity” and teases the forthcoming album through searing guitar work, according to Grandstand. The Irish post-punk group hopes to build upon its critically acclaimed 2023 album Gigi’s Recovery and debut When I Have Fears.

“There’s what’s in front of us, in our immediate field of vision,” McGovern said. “There are the things we can touch, the love we can feel. Then there’s everything else. Blindness is the warped belief. The behind us. The secluded. Love at a distance. Faith in denial. Distorted patriotism. The fading face of moments in the rear view. Blindness brings it all into focus.”

Following the release of Blindness on Feb. 21, The Murder Capital will go on tour in Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and Europe. 

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