Jamison Field Murphy (Tomato Flower) Releases Solo Album 'It Has to End' on Ramp Local

Today Jamison Field Murphy, one of the primary songwriters in Baltimore-based future pop band Tomato Flower, released his new solo LP It Has to End. Murphy will be supporting the album with a short east coast tour this fall.

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.

Tour Dates

October 12 - Rochester NY @ 75 Stutson

October 15 - Baltimore MD @ True Vine

October 20 - Philadephia @ Little Red Library

November 5 - Brooklyn @ Hart Bar