Jamison Field Murphy (Tomato Flower) Announces Solo LP 'It Has to End'

Today Jamison Field Murphy--one of the primary songwriters in Baltimore-based future pop band Tomato Flower--has announced his new solo LP It Has to End, out October 11th via Ramp Local. Today you can hear lead single "Field," a song "about social opacity and the inability to get through," according to Murphy. Murphy will also be performing next Friday, September 6th at Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, NC as part of the official Ramp Local x Hopscotch day party at Gateway Plaza.

It Has To End is a slice from a lifetime of home recording practice where Murphy collages a vast, decade-long archive of tape-recorded pop songs, ambient pieces, and noise. The album floats out intricately crafted from the bedrooms and basements it was made in, a private psychedelia refracted through the Tascam. It's also an insular creation that is still deeply social. All the songs are about people: friends, family, partners. Layers of memory morph into each other in the songs just as tape recordings from different time periods interweave.

Murphy's songs draw from the warped edges of singer-songwriter music and psych pop: the intuitive harmonic vocabulary of Syd Barrett, the complex miniatures of Chris Weisman, and the collage style of The Olivia Tremor Control bear particular influence. While the songs always threaten to melt into noise, a pop sensibility and obsessive sense of form remain at the center of Murphy's music