Murderbird Flu Goes Global
The Dysunited Kingdom remains the band’s heARTland, but it’s great to see the attention that the Great Fears & Curious Predictions EP is attracting from elsewhere. The above list of countries shows where the EP’s mini-site visitors have come from so far. Here are some review highlights that we’ve spotted…
“In its entirety Great Fears and Curious Predictions is everything I could have prayed for and more… the penmanship is flawless and fan or foe would be hard pushed to adequately criticise any aspect of the EP. It’s not often that a 5-track secures the position of release of the year, but I have a feeling Crook may have broken normal conventions.”
“Lupen’s songs have always been malleable, a characteristic allowing them to be performed by Mr. Crook on his own, as well as by the various Murderbirds incarnations. As this EP clearly shows, the tunes hold up to such experimentation because they’re so strong to begin with.”
WhiteTapes (rough translation from German):
“That we need to reintroduce Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds to you when they’ve already put out two albums shows that something is clearly not right in the music business, because this great release from singer-songwriter Lupen Crook deserves much more attention.”
ByteFM (rough translation from German):
“Wonderful music for a lonely Saturday evening, or alternatively an active Sunday morning.”
2 гамбургера и 2 коки (very rough translation from Russian - can anyone help?):
“British musicians are incredibly generous; this time it is Lupen Crook And The Murderbirds. Lupen Crook himself is an acoustic singer with a painful voice. As a part of The Murderbirds, he’s a melodramatic and devilish writer who mixes freak folk and rock.”
Also thanks to Jécoutedelamusiquedemerde and NO-NAME for their mentions and particularly to NME for the news story. Everyone’s support is really appreciated.
my russian friend translates it like this:
British musicians are incredibly generous; this time it is Lupen Crook And The Murderbirds.
Lupen Crook himself is an acoustic singer with a painful voice. As a part of The Murderburds, he’s a melodromatic and devilish writer who mixes freak folk and rock.
The new EP “Great Fears & Curious Predictions” you can get on their website. There are 5 songs,some of them will be included on their 3rd album, which is going to be released in the begining of the next year.
Suze, you’re a star. Have updated my ropey Babelfish translation now. Thanks