Reviews

• ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE | ALBUM REVIEW – The child’s perspective lends a candour crackling with innocence. There’s no polemic at work here, just a clutch of great songs telling it like it was, performed with an honesty that makes this rather special.

  ACOUSTIC MAGAZINE | ALBUM REVIEW  Unflinching snapshots of the Troubles are the genesis of these moving, acoustic driven songs from Newry Brothers Brendan and Declan Murphy. In ‘Bird’s Eye View‘, the ‘sky cracks open’ as ‘the blades come hovering down’, Brendan describing the mayhem from his window, knowing the carnage is just a ‘stone’s throw away’. ‘Going South‘ tells […]

• “With twelve songs in all, ‘Sugar Island’ offers a little bit of everything that we have come to love and expect from the band – the soulful voice of Brendan against a backdrop of Declan’s stunning acoustic guitar playing.” – FOLK & TUMBLE album review

  Songs usually mean a whole lot more to the listener if they mean something to the writer to begin with. ‘Sugar Island’, the latest recording from the Murphy Brothers AKA The 4 of Us, is a musical tribute to growing up in the North in the 1970s – specifically growing up in Newry, hometown to […]

• Sugar Island is very much an autobiographical tale of the Murphy brothers' formative years in Newry and how the surroundings affected their lives and their songwriting – IRISH NEWS interview & review

  It’s a notable achievement that THE 4 OF US have created such a potent-sounding record while keeping it simple and acoustic …  John Kearns, Irish News THE 4 OF US return with a brand new album, Sugar Island, and a series of live dates scheduled in their increasingly busy diary. The band are in fine […]