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THE MURDER CAPITAL

Dublin’s masters of dark punk dynamism

Listen to the debut album from Dublin’s The Murder Capital, When I Have Fears, and you might hear gritty punk; shoe-gazing, atmospheric kraut-rock; or even first-wave 80s goth influence. But what you can’t miss is a sense of urgency.

“At the heart of it, it is an album about the human condition,” says guitarist Cathal Roper. “Our interpretation of that at this point in our lives. No doubt that

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