RÓISÍN MURPHY

i feel like the new record is kind of a sister (or cousin) to last year's mr twin sister album

Hmm, hadn't thought about that, but makes sense on the surface.

I'm definitely a fan of the straightforwardness of Overpowered. This one takes more dedication to love, like Ruby Blue did imo.

been listening to this a lot lately and came across a track-by-track where she basically confirms that only "gone fishing" is about balling, the rest is about her strange interior life. was surprised to find out "exploitation" is literally about sex but in retrospect it's obvious

anyway this is still one of my favorite records of the year, though it makes more sense as a follow up to ruby blue than overpowered. "unputdownable" prob one of my favorite love songs of all time at this point

i waited so long for a new RM album but now there is one i couldn't care less, it's weird.

I played it a lot in late May but haven't returned to it. Too quiet and the melodies are skimpy.

gonna give it my first shot in weeks b/c Brad.

yeah really liking unputdownable, thanks Brad. I think i was put off by the single with the queazy speeding-slowing thing going on. hated that.

Too quiet and the melodies are skimpy.

sympathetic to this but i think i like it bc of how pared down and nervously quiet it is

also i'm a real sucker for the jazzy guitar runs in "exploitation" and "house of glass"

I think i was put off by the single with the queazy speeding-slowing thing going on. hated that.

If you mean Exploitation, that's one of the things I like about that track (my favorite from the album, in either the single version or album version).

ah so there IS a thread. doesn't come up in the search for Roisin. first track is amazing. good to see it got a Mercury nod.
this is her best stuff IMO.

the lack of love would be more baffling if this weren't a very quiet and elusive record

omg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic9f7XRRhx0

INDEED

The full version looks like it's getting released on Friday (digital/12") and is 7+ minutes. WANT

He should do a full remix album. The video is so good too.

Another remix

https://soundcloud.com/miss-roisin-murphy/unputdownable-prosumer-remix/s-9xUmr

so, uh, i guess there might be a new album this year?
https://twitter.com/roisinmurphy/status/702787290171629568

Wow

hell yeah. hairless toys didn't hit me at first but now i think it's amazing... i listened again keeping a couple comments in mind i'd read on the EOY 2015 thread, something about how 'evil eyes' switches gears into a boogie song four mins in. her previous album, which i love, even sounded a bit drab afterward in comparison.

https://soundcloud.com/miss-roisin-murphy/mastermind

new track is nice, hadn't seen the tweets so I wasn't expecting something new already.

This song is like a series of forks in the road, and she took the right one every time.

Yeah, this is great! Even though it's the sort of thing my pop-structured mind tends to find unpleasant, it works when Róisín does it.

just came here to post about the new album. nothing for 8 years then 2 albums inside 1 year. weird huh? last album is amazing, easily her best IMO.

by the way this thread is impossible to find.

Hairless Toys was impressive but I still love Overpowered more than anything she's done, though.

album title is intriguing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-BQXz1Nk7k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4xe-qiKE00#t=210

oh boy

that song "Mastermind" is a jacuzzi.

'ten miles high' on repeat

Album sampler. Properly bonkers as expected. I feel like Róisín is now fully in her own world... and what a beautiful and mysterious world that is!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cppivyhqwFU#t=554

Róisín DGAF!

tbh I'm not into very much of this, at least at this early stage, but good on her

It seems to lose a bit of momentum towards the second half. But the first four tracks or so have some incredible moments.

I love that the bass is used so sparsely (both here and in Hairless Toys) but when it's there, it's fucking there. No messing around.

this record is super fucking wacky. also "ten miles high" is a masterpiece

I don't have any fully-formed opinions yet but this album is amazing.

New album is utterly bonkers.

It sounds like Disco Volante era Mr Bungle in some sections.

I'm not liking this new direction.

I think I like it, but it'll take me a few listens to confirm.

She has too powerful a voice and presence to murmur over slow tracks.

It's not all that though. I get the impression that they're the kind of tracks which will reveal their underlying structure and power over time.

"ten miles high" reminds me heavily of moloko

also idk if sustained murmuring is really a new direction for róisín

The beats tended to be kinetic ("Dear Miami").

I like "Ten Miles High" too.

imo it's the best song from both albums

btw can someone tell me how to pronounce her first name? Is it RO-SHEEN?

I don't want to embarrass myself this weekend around fellow music nerds.

iirc yes

Nervous Sleep is pretty extraordinary (this may be the one that Alfred is thinking of most with his "mumbling over slow tracks" description)

Enjoying this a lot. It was less instant than Hairless Toys but I'm enjoying it more as a whole after a few plays. Some of it reminds me of a more mellow version of Ruby Blue.

I mean, even last year's Guadagnino adaptation of Queer got that right.

Given even current transphobes have somewhat incoherent ideas which they struggle to apply with precision (e.g. one would ~expect~ "gender-critical" people to be very pro-enby, but somehow they're mostly even more offended by enbys than they claim to be by trans people) it seems particularly pointless to try to speculate on what incoherent position a long-since-dead historical figure might have taken.

one would ~expect~ "gender-critical" people to be very pro-enby

not if you read it as the transphobe equivalent of "race realist"