Frances Murray - Adults

Essex artist Frances Murray (formerly Blab), who now resides in Brighton, is set to release her new single ‘Adults’. The single is taken from the upcoming debut album ‘Dreamer’, due for release on 10th April.

Adults, like a great episode of The Simpsons from seasons 1 to 9, move between serious and playful with consummate ease. Her guitars nestle somewhere between Pavement’s slacker indie and Kurt Vile’s laissez-faire daydreams. They lay the perfect platform for Murray to ponder her quarter-life crisis.

Turning 25, the milestone that’s never given the poignant recognition it deserves. The dawning realisation that you should have it figured all out by now, I (“am I ever going to know, what the f**k is going on”) collides with an ever-growing sense of isolation and doom of your thirties coming without you ever making an impact. Murray captures this with great poise and wit:

“Seaside, gentrified / Am I just washed up / Trying not to give up / Mortgages, taxes, icloud storage / Current affairs, kitchen appliances, trying not to listen to your neighbours arguing”

Murray, a long-time friend and collaborator with Get Cape Wear Cape Fly!, has eloquently, amusingly, and melodically distilled the magic of his masterpiece, ‘The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager’. Every generation needs a poetical polemicist; Murray is shaping up well to be this one's.