RÓISÍN MURPHY

You're in for a rude awakening when the wave of performative support from the worst people on the planet you are currently enjoying for being an open bigot ends and you realize you destroyed your career. And for what? To make queer people's lives harder? Embarrassing.

— André (@jygglypuffdadTV) September 8, 2023

she liked a tweet criticising boyne for apologising to linehan so who knows what the hell she's thinking lol. using twitter again can't possibly help her though

be mad if someone had stripped all the vocals and just had a wicked DJ Koze record to listen to wouldn't it. pic.twitter.com/OiVgcGOw5j

— bloatyhead (@bloatyhead) September 8, 2023

yes please re: instrumental release

I'm not on twitter anymore so I can't see what she responded to, but has it turned out that Ninja Tune is not donating to charity and not actually dropping her?

The story about Ninja Tune donating all proceeds came from "a source familiar with the matter told the Star on background" not from the label itself.

at the very least, Ninja Tune is definitely not publicizing her at all.

It sounds like Murphy checked with them and found it isn't true. If you believe her.

Well, those reports were unconfirmed by the label. They have made no official statement whatsoever and they are not intending to donate proceeds from the record to charity. I checked!

— Róisín Murphy (@roisinmurphy) September 8, 2023

I do feel bad for the producers who worked hard on this (is Koze the sole producer?). My most streamed piece of music by a wide margin was for a rapper who later got (rightfully) canceled. :/

never seen anyone implicitly so happy to learn a charity *wouldn't* be getting money

She’ll be donating any earnings she makes to The Human Fund

Ok gave this one a chance and trying to hear separating the art from the artist:

There’s no way this is a 5 star album even removed from the current controversy. Way too long, with a lot of songs that don’t do anything particularly interesting. Couple of highlights sure but this is at most a 3.5 star album imho.

And yeah most interesting things are what DJ Koze is cooking in the background but it wouldn’t work as an instrumental either.

(is Koze the sole producer?)

Yes, she's returned to the original model of doing each album with a single also-makes-their-own-records producer. (Parrot on Roisin Machine and Fulton on the 2018 albumsworth-of-EPs.) (There was also a Mad Professor collab in progress, but he has two co-write credits on Hit Parade, so maybe that stalled out and she salvaged parts of songs.)

A student at the radio station forwarded me the streamable link, so I felt no guilt about giving her royalties in the last couple days, and...it's fine? Certainly not at the level of Róisín Machine

idk the dennun take above is some classic "accidental ally" shit to me. "if you think murphy is a bigot, that means you also disagree with the official nhs policy on trans healthcare!" yeppers! do they say "yeppers" in the uk? they should. the uk needs to steal all of our most embarrassing slang.

signed,

an american who still likes to call things she doesn't like "naff"

Bennun's also spreading disinformation about the Cass Review. He's been doubling down on his GC stance over the past couple of years, all while presenting himself as a moderate: of course I support trans rights he claims, while pushing exclusively GC arguments and defending the likes of Helen Joyce.
I'd say Bennun was a classic aggro centrist who lost his mind over Corbyn, but he's always been like this. I've seen MM articles of his from the 90s where he sets himself up as the sensible grown up who is much wiser than some silly out group, eg a Levellers review that expends much of the word count sneering at crusties walking by his Brighton cafe while he sits sipping his cappuccino and reading the Times (he did a similar thing more recently with his Cypress Hill piece, inventing some straw man CH fan to sneer at). A lousy music writer and an even lousier political commentator.

Think we need a 77 Terfwatch thread

Done.

Hey, name me one band you always assumed were pricks despite never hearing a note of their music? Btw, Roisin Murphy was apparently the special guest at Fat White Family's gig in Brixton last night

lol fat white family's twitter likes are filled with faux-left reactionaries like nina power so that checks out lol

Fat White Family do have a previous connection: the guitarist and singer have an extensive Dean Honer collab, and in 2019 Parrot remixed and Roisin directed a video for them

her new fans have actually come through for her:

Albums Chart Update: Roisin Murphy's Hit Parade hits the Top 3 midweek https://t.co/UAfPvP4qtD pic.twitter.com/JbuEF5JVYx

— Official Charts (@officialcharts) September 11, 2023

her new fans:

Bought it!
My usual choice of music is trad folk from Donegal, but, well.... why not try something new?

— Theo Hopkins (@TheoHopkins4321) September 11, 2023

Most amusing seeing TERFs saying they’ve ‘just downloaded it on Spofity’ and such like.

I am morbidly curious to see who would work with her on her next album

It will be a collab with J.K. Rowling.

It's not exactly difficult to get albums in the UK Top 10, Morrissey does it all the time only for the album to plummet out the next week, we'll see how it goes for her album. I imagine it'll still sell reasonably well tbh.

"My usual choice of music is trad folk from Donegal." LOL

What a pretentious twat.

These are the people you traded your loyal fans for, Roisin?

would be great if, after the terfs all fork out their money, ninja tune announce they are going to donate the proceeds to mermaids after all

you should check his profile description xp

I'm guessing Pitchfork is not going to review this, which is probably the best decision.

That Morrissey album going in at 3 and falling from the top 100 the following week was classic. Not even somewhat more niche acts like the Divine Comedy or Deacon Blue have plummets like that (I guess they have the Radio 2 support to thank for that).

I'm guessing Pitchfork is not going to review this, which is probably the best decision.

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Monday, September 11, 2023 1:06 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was just thinking this. Given that Murphy was the subject of a rare profile by the site a few months ago (one of only four that it's published in 2023) and that Pitchfork ranked her last album in its year-end top 20, one might have expected a review soon after its release. Roisin Machine and Take Her Up to Monto were both reviewed the Monday after their Friday release, so the lack of a Hit Parade review today seems conspicuous.

Weirdly the thought of P4k not reviewing it was one of the first things that originally came to mind re:how this would diminish Murphy's profile. They did the same to Swans this year but not last time round, where a review of the 2019 album was quietly snuck out three weeks post-release.

They did not include RM in Friday's 10 Albums You Need to Hear Right Now list.

There's a good chance it won't be top five by Friday when the chart position is announced. Cult-ish artists often do well in the midweek chart, post about it on their social media as though it's the actual chart, and end up a good few rungs lower.

Anything that means I don't have to look at that cover again

1 Album You Don't Need to Hear Right Now

It really is a hideous sleeve.

I don't have any real issues with the image, but that font irritates me.

image seems appropriate for someone who turned out to be a fucking clown

"My usual choice of music is trad folk from Donegal." LOL

What a pretentious twat.

These are the people you traded your loyal fans for, Roisin?

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux)

they probably still can't get over the heartbreak of having to throw out all their lou killen records

I've noticed a lot of music writers and dance music artists sticking up for her lately

and not just the usual julie burch1ll types

Who?

I am morbidly curious to see who would work with her on her next album

Alex Kapranos

is he a TERF?

he RT'd Paphides' tweet in support of Murphy

https://x.com/alkapranos/status/1698378767247298878?s=20

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