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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, whom the band has worked with on their three EPs to date. The extraordinary eight-track collection not only confirms the four-piece as a…
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, whom the band has 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 the new single ‘Look Down On Us’, a furious cry against the impact of late-stage capitalism and the wealth of the one per cent 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.
