Finch is an instrumental soundtrack to a book of the same name by Science Fiction/Fantasy/Horror author Jeff Vanermeer. He approached Murder By Death about doing a soundtrack to go with the limited edition of his new book, and the band thought it was such a strange idea they had to do it. The book reminded the band of Bladerunner - with spore-faced bad guys. They locked themselves up in a studio for five days and wrote and recorded an instrumental album inspired by the book. They used a lot of crazy    [ read more ]

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Though they've had eight years to refine their sound and vision, Murder By Death rolled out of the gates fully realized in 2000, playing a blend of rocking Americana noir and dramatic post-punk that erased old style and audience boundaries as much as it tested the limits of new ones. And with their fourth album and Vagrant debut, Red Of Tooth And Claw, the Bloomington, Indiana, quartet are emerging as true artists in the zero-boundary sense: cinematic storytellers whose albums come together in an ess   [ read more ]

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There's something about the idea of the Old West -- the lawlessness, the dry, dusty landscape, perhaps -- that appeals to the sinner in everyone (it's no coincidence that Vegas is in the desert), something seen and reflected in John Ford movies or Ennio Morricone film scores. Maybe it's all the empty space, or maybe it's the heat that seems to make people forget about civility and resort to more carnal emotion to settle things. It's exactly these ideas that Murder by Death chose to explore in their   [ read more ]

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