Today, Manchester’s Maruja announce their highly anticipated debut album Pain to Power, due for release by Music For Nations and produced by Samuel W Jones, who the band worked with on their three EPs to date. The extraordinary eight track collection not only confirms the four piece as a creative force of nature but finds a deeply emotional and empathetic band concerned primarily with the power of community, both in the nuclear sense, as a tight knit creative unit, but also as a wider force for social and political change in the age of the individual.

Maruja believe passionately in the ability of art to empower, heal and unite and have created a body of work with Pain to Power that they hope will offer both strength and an emotional release to anyone who is struggling with the impact of years of political turmoil and social isolation.