Murkage Dave announces new album, Brut Thoughts

Brut Thoughts follows Murkage Dave's 2022 album The City Needs A Hero, and 2023 follow-up The City Needs... Part Deux.

"This song spilled out of me across several months, watching my dad get ill, and then dealing with his passing. It's funny but I learned so much about him I didn't know during this time. It was bittersweet," Dave explains of "RNA". "The idea of being a ‘real man’ is often connected to physical strength, wielding power and not showing emotion. But for me being real can be about other things; it can be about owning your weaknesses and insecurities, being able to talk these things through. Wanting to do better. It can be about being able to admit when you just can't take it any more, but still somehow gathering the strength to keep going.”

Speaking on the themes of working-class masculinity of his grandad’s and dad’s generation that inspired the album, Dave shares: “In a way, this album is all the things my dad could have said if he wasn’t hemmed in by the socio-economic factors of the 80s, being chased by the National Front, and being a parent.”