LISTEN: John Murry Drops Eclectic Poetic Grace On “I Refuse To Believe (You Could Love Me)”

John Murry is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and producer from Tupelo, Mississippi, who currently lives in Kilkenny, Ireland. John Murry’s forthcoming third album ‘The Stars Are God’s Bullet Holes’ is starlit and wondrous, like being wrapped in the softest black velvet. It’s an album of startling imagery and insinuating melodies, of cold moonlight and searing heat. It’s a record that penetrates to the very heart of you, searing with its burning honesty, its unsparing intimacy,and its twisted beauty.

Experimentally odd, Murry is beautifully impossible to pin down (as it should be) as he muses through fuzz bass and a stripped down rock rhythm section, on “I Refuse To Believe (You Could Love Me)”. Murray mixes up post-punk, seering inflection and ’70s artistic strokes sound like Magnetic Fields at CBGB.

“This song is my take on what Ric Ocasek (RIP) from The Cars might have written if he had been into those dark “UK Surf” era Pixies mixes and found himself a bit trapped in Kilkenny, Ireland, for some years and – while there – grew a bit more alienated, broke, maligned, and bored by the day, then week, then month, then years,” comments Murry of the track. “Ric would’ve probably written something much catchier, but y’all catch my drift, yeah?” says Murry.

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