Neuigkeit vom 09.03.2022FATHER MURPHY

Father Murphy is the sound of the Catholic sense of Guilt.
A downward spiral aiming at the bottom of the hollow, and then digging even deeper.
After having furiously performed all over Europe, toured North America with Deerhoof, Dirty Beaches, Iceage and Xiu
Xiu, been praised by the Archdruid Julian Cope, Michael Gira, Geoff Barrow, among lots of others, the Italian outfit
spent some time in New Mexico where they recorded with Deerhoof’s John Dieterich a new album. Titled Croce
(Cross in Italian), the new 8 tracks deal this time with the Cross as symbol of Sacrifice as of Beatitude has been
released by The Flenser Records in March 2015. Like the previous album (“Anyway, your children will deny it” among
the best 50 albums of 2012 for Rock­a­Rolla Magazine) the new piece was mixed and produced by Deerhoof’s Greg
Saunier.
Father Murphy, with three albums and a plethora of EPs and limited releases, over the years became one of the most
mysterious and enigmatic musical entities coming out of Italy, part of that community that Simon Reynolds started to
call the new “Italian Occult Psychedelia”.

„When I played a non­band set in Oakland, California, opening for the Italian band Father Murphy, they completely
floored me. I had never heard of them until then, but their album And He Told Us Not To Turn to the Sun packs some
f the most original, beautiful music I’d heard in a long time – think eerily spacious songs with strange yet perfect
arrangements. And such nice people! I’m a huge fan“ – John Dieterich (Deerhoof) as interviewed by The Independent

„After their really rather glorious debut it is reassuring to see that this strange Italian troupe have lost none of their
experimental verve…If you’ve got an open mind then you might just discover a new favourite band“ ­ Alex Deller,
ROCKSOUND