Mojo Magazine have premiered the new John Murry video for Southern Sky and awarded his album The Graceless a very rare and very impressive five stars in this issue .

"John Murry's masterful gothic country debut, The Graceless Age, is due for release next month. Born of self-destruction (including drug addiction and an overdose), emotional breakdowns and ultimately redemption and reconciliation, the album finds Murry channeling a sound that recalls Josh T Pearson, Bruce Springsteen and Bill Callahan

ohn Murry's would be a compelling story had he never made a record – grandson of William Faulkner, an addict who lost his wife and child and home, and almost his life, before cleaning up. And then you get to the record. The Graceless Age is extraordinary, a profound and moving meditation – the kind of album that answers questions you didn't realise you were asking. Musically, it's hardly unfamiliar – weeping Americana, backed with fuzzes of electric guitar and organ that slide in and out of focus, discomfiting and discombobulating – but expertly done. Lyrically, though, it's remarkable: brutal, frank and beautiful. Through stories that are partly his own – the centrepiece, Little Colored Balloons, ends with Murry's overdose ("I took an ambulance ride – they said I should've died, right there on 16th and Mission") – Murry invests the South with a necromantic realism, where decay is the one constant, but he somehow avoids self-pity or lachrymosity. I don't expect to hear a better album this year.