Taste Test: The Murphs head to new beginnings on a ‘Southbound Train’

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Sometimes, you just want music to take you away – the problems of the world fading in your rearview mirror. Cracked highway growls beneath your engine’s sweet purr, yellow and white lines zipping out of eyesight in fragmented blurs. Bluesy Americana outfit The Murphs set out on a breezy, easy-going “Southbound Train,” a chugging, unfussy locomotive whose only destination is freedom. Comprised of Austin Coleman, Katie Coleman, Cody Marlowe and Rob D’Angelo, the Atlanta-based four-piece are writing their own exhilarating story; musically, the flow between throwback folk-rock layers and a contemporary razzle-dazzle. “I was headed back from somewhere / I never should have been / And the games that we were playing / I should not have let you in,” chirps Marlowe, whose reedy timbre pierces the mix with syrupy harmony work nestling against him. He invites the listener to escape, and you’ll want to – and you should.

“Southbound Train” is lifted from the band’s debut self-titled album, out everywhere now.

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