The Murder Capital have unleashed Blindness, their third album, and it’s a hard-hitting, unrelenting listen. After years of touring, the Dublin outfit have taken everything they’ve learned—about themselves, about exhaustion, about making music that actually means something—and poured it into 11 tracks of controlled chaos.
The album lands today (February 21), just in time for their first-ever Australian and New Zealand tour this March and April.
Blindness isn’t a comfortable record. It’s desperate, raw, and, at times, barely holding itself together. Which makes sense, considering the band wrote it off the back of a relentless tour cycle. They’ve admitted they weren’t all on the same page at first, but whatever creative clashes happened in pre-production clearly worked in their favour. With producer John Congleton (who they worked with on Gigi’s Recovery) behind the desk, they recorded the album in just three weeks in LA.
Frontman James McGovern has framed Blindness as a record about faith, love, and everything we refuse to see. “There’s what’s in front of us, in our immediate field of vision. Then there’s everything else. Blindness is the warped belief. The behind us. The secluded. Love at a distance. Faith in denial. Distorted patriotism.” It’s an album that takes apart Irish identity, relationships, addiction, and the weight of memory—big themes, but ones the band have never shied away from.
They’ve already let loose a few tracks—Can’t Pretend To Know, Words Lost Meaning, The Fall—and each one has come with the kind of urgency that makes The Murder Capital stand out. The full album takes that even further.
They’ve been steadily climbing since Gigi’s Recovery dropped last year, scoring a Number 1 in Ireland, a Top 20 in the UK, and slots at Glastonbury, Reading & Leeds, and Coachella. Now, after touring with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, they’re heading Down Under for the first time. If the new album is anything to go by, these shows won’t be ones to just stand around at.
The Murder Capital – Australian & NZ Tour 2025
- March 31 – San Fran, Wellington
- April 1 – The Tuning Fork, Auckland
- April 3 – The Corner Hotel, Melbourne
- April 4 – The Brightside, Brisbane
- April 5 – Crowbar, Sydney
- April 7 – The Rosemount, Perth
Tickets for these shows can be accessed here.
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