The Murder Capital release ‘Ethel’ – third single & video from new album Gigi’s Recovery

The Dublin rock band The Murder Capital have released the third song from their upcoming album Gigi’s Recovery.

Following on from the Britpop-leaning ‘Only Good Things’ and ‘A Thousand Lives’ which had more of a Radiohead feel, the band have released ‘Ethel’ and a music video by Maxim Kelly.

“The song ‘Ethel’ is a picture of a crossroads, really, asking you what you want from life. 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.”

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 “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 like surreal so then as I started finding more imagery, it kind of transpired that maybe the maid was the more interesting character.”

Maxim Kelly

The band’s new album Gigi’s Recovery, out January 20th on Human Season Records, was produced by John Congleton.

1. Existence
2. Crying
3. Return My Head
4. Ethel
5. 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

Out January 20th on Human Season Records
Pre-order HERE

The Murder Capital 2023 Tour Dates:

FEB 4, 2023. Trix, Antwerp, Belgium
FEB 5, 2023. LUXOR, Cologne, Germany
FEB 6, 2023. Molotow, Musikclub Hamburg, Germany
FEB 8, 2023. Lido,  Berlin, Germany
FEB 9, 2023. Hansa 39 ,  Munich, Germany
FEB 11, 2023. La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France
FEB 13, 2023. Le Trabendo, Paris, France
FEB 14, 2023. Paradiso, Amsterdam, Netherlands

FEB 16, 2023. Albert Hall, Manchester, United Kingdom
FEB 18, 2023. SWG3 TV Studio, Glasgow, United Kingdom
FEB 20, 2023. Stylus,  Leeds, England
FEB 21, 2023. The Mill,  Birmingham, United Kingdom
FEB 23, 2023. O2 Forum Kentish Town,  London, United Kingdom
FEB 24, 2023. Marble Factory,  Bristol, England
FEB 26, 2023. Vicar Street,  Dublin, Ireland

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