Maruja announce debut album and hometown headline show at Manchester O2 Ritz

  Maruja Announce Debut Album
‘Pain to Power’ Out 12th September on Music For NationsNew Single ‘Look Down On Us’ Out Today
WATCH THE VIDEO HERE

Announce World Tour
Play London’s Electric Ballroom On 13th November
“The tension of modernity finally bursts with one hell of a racket” – NME

“a band that defies description” – Rolling Stone

“will leave listeners breathless but begging for more” – DIY Magazine

“when these guys eventually go into full record mode, it’s going to be incredible” – Anthony Fantano

 

 

 

 

 

Today, Manchester’s Maruja announce their highly anticipated debut album ‘Pain to Power’, due for release by Music For Nations on 12th September and produced by Samuel W Jones, who the band worked with on their three EPs to date. The extraordinary eight track collection not only confirms the four piece as a creative force of nature but finds a deeply emotional and empathetic band concerned primarily with the power of community, both in the nuclear sense, as a tight knit creative unit, but also as a wider force for social and political change in the age of the individual.

The first taste of the album is new single ‘Look Down On Us’, a furious cry against the impact of late-stage capitalism and the wealth of the one percent on global society.

This is protest music at its most potent. Thought-provoking, unifying and intensely cathartic, it places the band in the great canon of artists using their art to propel change. Speaking about the single, frontman Harry Wilkinson says

“Look Down On Us is a reflection of the times we live in. The first half of the song paints a grotesque and vivid picture of the super wealthy, and the impact they have on our culture. The second half is about the need to come together in solidarity and embrace love as a wider community, especially in times of oppression. The song ends full circle, arching back to where it began as a reminder to the listener of the struggle from which it came, and the struggle that still remains.”

The single arrives with a powerful ten minute video, which starts with the band performing against a backdrop of vivid, expressive brushstrokes, taken from ‘Pain to Power’s’ artwork by Mikey Thomas before segueing into a section of contemporary dance as the single reaches its midsection of calmer, transcendent jazz.

Maruja believe passionately in the ability of art to empower, heal and unite and has created a body of work with ‘Pain to Power’ that they hope will offer strength and knowledge to the listener.

In support of the album, they take their unmissable live show on the road across the UK, Europe, China, Japan and the US later this year.

Artist presale begins at 9am local time on Wednesday 14th May and ends on the same day at 11:59pm.

General on-sale is Friday 16th May at 9am local time. All tickets will be available HERE.

1. Bloodsport
2. Look Down On Us
3. Saoirse
4. Born to Die
5. Break the Tension
6. Trenches
7. Zaytoun
8. Reconcile

MARUJA PLAY

MAY
16th             The Great Escape, BRIGHTON
23rd             Conpass, OSAKA
24th             Club Que, TOKYO
27th             YUE Space, BEIJING
28th             VAS Livehouse, SHANGHAI
29th             9 Club, HANGZHOU
31st             VOX Livehouse, WUHAN

JUNE
1st               B10 Live, GUANGZHAN
2nd              OMNI Space, BEIJING
8th               Lycabettus Hill Theatre, ATHENS (supporting TV on the Radio)
11th             Rock For People Festival, CZECH REPUBLIC
12th             Ecosystemic Festival, LATVIA
14th             Outbreak Festival, MANCHESTER

JULY
11th             Pohoda Festival, SLOVAKIA
20th             TvSpenta festival, ITALY
26th             Deer Shed Festival, YORKSHIRE

AUGUST
7th               Ypsigrock Festival, ITALY
8th               Haldern Pop Festival, GERMANY
9th               Winterthurer Musikfestwochen, SWITZERLAND
14th             Paredes de Coura festival, PORTUGAL
16th             Lowlands Festival, NETHERLANDS
17th             Pukkelpop Festival, BELGIUM
21st             Canela Party, SPAIN
23rd             Shambala Festival, UK             

SEPTEMBER
22nd            Foundry, PHILADELPHIA
23rd             Sinclair, BOSTON
25th             Elsewhere, BROOKLYN
27th             Concert Hall, TORONTO
28th             Thalia Hall, CHICAGO

OCTOBER
1st               El Rey, LOS ANGELES
2nd              Constellation Room, SANTA ANA
3rd               Independent, SAN FRANCISCO
4th               Harlows Startlet Room, SACRAMENTO
25th             Electric Bristol, BRISTOL
29th             The Garage, GLASGOW
31st             Whelan’s, DUBLIN

NOVEMBER
1st               The Limelight 2, BELFAST
5th               The Castle & Falcon, BIRMINGHAM
7th               The Wardrobe, LEEDS
8th               Rescue Rooms, NOTTINGHAM
12th             CHALK, BRIGHTON
13th             Electric Ballroom, LONDON
14th             O2 Ritz, MANCHESTER
19th             Botanique Orangerie, BRUSSELS
20th             LUXOR, COLOGNE
21st             Paradiso Tolhuistuin, AMSTERDAM
22nd            Bahnhof Pauli, HAMBURG
26th             Hole44, BERLIN
28th             Bogen F, ZURICH
29th             Santeria Toscana 31, MILAN

DECEMBER

3rd               M.OU.CO., Porto
4th               LAV, Lisbon
5th               Copernico, MADRID
6th               Sala Apolo, BARCELONA
10th             Pannonica, NANTES
11th             Le Tetris, LE HAVRE
12th             Trabendo, PARIS