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Bored of songs about teenage angst, sung from beneath surly fringes, Jim and Paul resolved to save the world through more practical means and trained as junior doctors. Over the next few years they lived several lifetimes as the whole pantomime of human existence passed through their hands. Jim initially discovered he didn’t have the time to cry & after a few weeks found he had lost the ability altogether. He began to write during the physical & emotional travails of hundred hour weeks; the writing process beginning to provide an effective sanity-saving outlet.






Starkly acoustic, the stories took abstract forms. Sometimes, only a general feeling of otherworldliness connected the listener to that strange place of black-windowed hospital corridors and sleep-deprived hallucination. Writing the stories made Jim feel a whole lot better and it would be fantastic if it could make others feel the same – that’s why he’s self-released 3 EPs. People seem to appreciate music that means something and is borne out of experiences like theirs. ‘Single of the week’ recognition in the Guardian & Record Collector, or as NME put it "Delightful, intelligent, melancholy and beautiful, Muir is clearly operating, as the hip hoppers say, on some other shit" seem to confirm the music’s potential to touch people. Jim & Paul feel incredibly privileged for their experiences as doctors but now feel as though their lives are moving on. As they prepare to leave the hospital for the last time, the stars are coming out…


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