Major Murphy

city: Grand Rapids
country: USA
genre: Alternative
styles: Dream Pop, Alternative Rock, Indie Pop, Indie Rock

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credits: Brett-Carlson

on hashbrandnew.com since March 13, 2021

ABOUT THIS BAND

Major Murphy explores the beauty of destruction and renewal on their latest release, Fallout, due July 19 via Winspear. The new 8-song project follows the band’s 2021 shimmering indie rock opus, Access, which garnered praise from The FADER, Stereogum, Uncut Magazine, The Sunday Times and more for its “timeless, universal feel” and the band’s ability to “combine the looseness of 1990s indie with the precision of 1970s soft rock.” On Fallout, Major Murphy extrapolates on many of the ideas and creative practices they established during the making of Access–distilling their sonic sketches with the stirring emotional terrain around parenthood, creative life and empathy.

Over the course of its eight tracks, Fallout deals in both abstraction and familiarity, weaving in classic rock and vintage sounds with the band’s unique alchemy of indie rock, which deftly pulls elements of soft rock, singer-songwriter and psychedelic sensibilities into cohesion. Songwriter Jacob Bullard shared that “This is our most modern collection of songs,” noting the natural progression of their songwriting towards a more alternative and contemporary lens. The project’s artwork also touches on this shift, filtering the classic Americana quilt motif into a looser abstraction, painted by friend Blake Rhein of the band Durand Jones and the Indications.

Source [Spotify]