The War On Drugs by Matthias Hesch
Valentine’s Eve 2020 at the Irish Centre in Leeds: incurable romantics are few in number here, what with The Murder Capital opening their UK tour; their intense, brooding songs mostly concerning loss, mortality and collapsing faith played to an audience twice the size of that which saw them at the city’s Brudenell Social Club only a few months before.
For the quintet, there is an appreciation of how big things can get how fast. Having already done shows in cities across Europe from Vienna to Paris, theirs is undoubtedly a star rising at a roughly similar rate to countrymen Fontaines D.C., a curve on which they’re about twelve months behind.