Maruja - Pain to Power [LP]

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: 19802931601
Barcode: 0198029316018
Release Date: 12 Sep 2025
Genre: Post Rock/Experimental

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.
 
Maruja believe passionately in the ability of art to empower, heal and unite and have created a body of work with ‘Pain to Power’ that they hope will offer both strength and an emotional release to anyone who is struggling with the impact of years of political turmoil and social isolation.

Maruja are;
 
Matt Buonaccorsi – Bass Guitar
Joe Carroll – Saxophone
Jacob Hayes - Drums
Harry Wilkinson – Vocals/ Guitar

FOR FANS OF: BLACK MIDI, BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD, BADBADNOTGOOD, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE
 
“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
 
“a mix of punk, prog, jazz, electronics and experimental song structures, a combo that has them grouped in with the likes of black midi, Squid and Black Country, New Road. As a coworker said earlier today, they could be the band that unites fans of BCNR, IDLES, Makaya McCraven and Chat Pile.” Brooklyn Vegan