When I have fears

"Every corner of the punk landscape is explored on this rich, emotional debut album from the Dublin five-piece ... `When I Have Fears', and the make-up of The Murder Capital down to their very name, can be traced back to the suicide of a close friend. "Every single one of those lyrics relates back in some way to his death," the band say in a statement. It inevitably puts the entire record in a new dark light, its emotional moments given deeper, sombre meanings, and its outbursts of visceral emotion even greater weight and passion".

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"A raw, rampaging debut ... Dublin five-piece draws on post-punk from Joy Division to Idles, but their thrillingly unnerving energy is all their own".

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